BPMV-based viral constructs useful for VIGS and expression of heterologous proteins in legumes

ABSTRACT

The invention provides Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) vectors useful for expression of heterologous proteins in plants such as soybean. The BPMV vectors are also useful for virus-induced gene silencing. The vectors of the invention include modifications of BPMV RNA1 sequences so that infection with the vectors produces only moderate symptoms. The vectors also comprise novel RNA2 vectors which specifically provide for non-translated VIGS constructs and further which do not require in frame insertion of heterologous sequences to be expressed.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to provisionalapplication Ser. No. 61/281,469 filed Nov. 18, 2009, herein incorporatedby reference in its entirety.

GRANT REFERENCE

This invention was made with government support under Grant Nos.2006-31100-06019, and 2007-31100-06019, awarded by USDA/CSREES. Thegovernment has certain rights in the invention.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates generally to the area of plant molecular biologyand more specifically to plant viral expression vectors.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Plant virus-based vectors for expressing heterologous proteins in plantspresent promising biotechnological tools to supplement conventionalbreeding and transgenic technology. Considering the speed with which avirus infection becomes established throughout a plant and the highyield of viral-encoded proteins that accumulate in plants, the use ofviral vectors provides an attractive and cost effective means for theoverproduction of valuable proteins in plants and for rapid evaluationof new traits.

Plant virus-based vectors have been recently developed to expressheterologous proteins in plants for the study of gene function,production of pharmaceuticals, analysis of plant-microbe interactions,fungicide and insecticide screening, metabolic engineering and nutrientimprovement and represent valuable means to supplement conventionalbreeding and transgenic technology.

Several different types of positive sense RNA plant viruses have beendeveloped as vectors for production of recombinant proteins and peptides(Pogue et al., Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 40:45-74 (2002); Scholthof etal., Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 34:299-323 (1996)). Depending on thestructure of the viruses involved and their genome replication andexpression strategies, a number of approaches including genereplacement, gene insertion, epitope presentation, and complementationhave been utilized. Plant viral vectors are presently available forrecombinant protein expression in a wide range of host plants includingNicotiana benthamiana, tobacco, squash, cucumber, wheat, barley, cowpea,Nicotiana clevelandii, Chenopodium quinoa, and Arabidopsis (Allison etal., J. Virol. 62:3581-3588 (1998); Brisson et al., Nature 310:511-514(1984); Choi et al., Plant J. 23:547-555 (2000); Constantin et al.,Plant J. 40:622-631 (2004); Dolja et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.89:10208-10212 (1992); Fernandez-Fernandez et al., Virology 280:283-291(2001); French et al., Science 231:1294-1297 (1986); Gopinath et al.,Virology 267:159-173 (2000); Hagiwara et al., J. Virol. 73:7988-7993(1999); Haupt et al., Plant Physiol. 125:209-218 (2001); Lacomme et al.,Plant J. 34:543-553 (2003); Turnage et al., Plant J. 30:107-117 (2002)).Even with these advances, there are only a limited number of plant viralvectors that are suitable for systemic expression of foreign proteins inmajor legume crops like soybean. Soybean is a main source of oil andhigh-quality protein worldwide, and there is critical need for toolsthat allow for rapid evaluation of new traits involving expression ofvaluable proteins that confer disease/pest resistance and/or those thatenhance the commercial value of soybean.

Plant viral vectors can be also used as virus-induced gene silencing(VIGS) reverse genetics tools to study gene function (Burch-Smith etal., 2004). VIGS can specifically down regulate a single gene, membersof a gene family, or sets of distinct genes (Lu et al., 2003; Peele etal., 2001; Turnage et al., 2002). Due to these advantages, many positivesense RNA plant viruses have been developed as vectors for production ofrecombinant proteins or as VIGS vectors for many plant species(Burch-Smith et al., 2004; Ding et al., 2006; Groønlund et al., 2008;Igarashi et al., 2009; Meng et al., 2009; Pogue et al., 2002; Zhang etal., 2009). With readily increasing genomic information, VIGS vectorshave substantial potential to advance functional genomics for bothmonocots and dicots. Methods to understand and analyze plant genefunction are employed by using loss-of-function or gain-of-functiontechniques at present. Gene function analyzed by gain-of-function isgenerally accomplished through gene transformation, whileloss-of-function is conducted through mutagen, transposon tagging, T-DNAinsertion or homologous recombination. However, the abovementionedapproaches are complicated, time-consuming and difficult to scale up thegene analysis.

Alternatively, gene silencing is recently used to analyze gene function.Virus induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an efficient and reliable methodthough there are many techniques being conducted to induce genesilencing. Gene transformation is not required in the VIGS process,which provides a quick and feasible way for plants with lengthy lifecycle and transformation difficulties. VIGS is an RNA silencing processthat exploits a host defense mechanisms to defend against foreign viralRNAs or transposon(s). Small interfering RNA (siRNA) has been observedin plants when foreign viruses invade plants. These siRNAs binds foreignviral RNAs and trigger degradation of viral RNA. Virus-induced genesilencing (VIGS) is a type of RNA silencing that is initiated byrecombinant virus vectors carrying fragments of host genes beinganalyzed. The plants are infected with the recombinant viruses toactivate the RNA silencing of endogenous target gene of host plants.Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an RNA silencing process thattargets host defense against viruses. Many plant VIGS vectors have beendeveloped as reverse genetics tools for functional genomics studies.VIGS is especially useful for plants, such as soybean, that arerecalcitrant to transformation.

Depending on the genome replication and expression strategy of the virusemployed, there are two primary approaches for foreign gene sequenceexpression by plant viruses. The first is through insertion of foreigngene sequences into the viral genome by substitution of a viral gene orfusion with a viral gene(s) to express the foreign gene as a fusionprotein precursor. The second approach is to insert the foreign geneafter a viral sub-genomic promoter and express the foreign gene sequencethrough a viral sub-genomic RNA.

VIGS does not require the whole gene. It was reported that 23nucleotides was enough to induce gene silencing (Plant J. 25, 417-25,2001). The use of small fragments alleviates problems of acquiring thewhole cDNA and can enhance the specificity of virus induced genesilencing (VIGS). Compared with transformation of plants with senseand/or antisense gene approaches, the advantage of VIGS is the relativespeed. Moreover it suppresses the target gene RNA level after theseedling is established, which allows the functions of the essentialgenes to be tested upon silencing.

Previously, two generations of Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV, genusComovirus) VIGS vectors have been demonstrated to be effective andefficient soybean functional genomics tools. However, there are criticallimitations to the design of the previous vectors. For example, thefragment of the host gene to be silenced must be expressed as a fusionprotein that is in the same reading frame as the viral polyprotein. Theexpression of this peptide may be undesirable for VIGS applications asthis feature limits design of VIGS inserts to translatable regionsrather than to any region of interest. Further, in the previous design,only one gene can be expressed.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a new DNA-based BPMVvector to facilitate applications of the BPMV vector for soybeanfunctional genomics.

It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a novelBPMV-based vector which accommodates simultaneous expression of foreigngenes as well as insertion of non-coding sequences for VIGS.

It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a plantVIGS RNA1 helper vector that has ideal symptom phenotype that does notinterfere with the VIGS phenotype.

It is yet a further object of the invention to provide a novel vectorfor over-expression and accumulation of heterologous proteins in legumessuch as soybean as well as for VIGS for loss of function analysis.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION

The invention provides Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) vectors useful forexpression of heterologous proteins or for virus-induced gene silencing.The invention also provides methods for expressing a heterologouspolypeptide in a legume plant such as soybean as well as providesmethods for virus-induced gene silencing, to determine the function of agene of interest.

Applicants provide herein novel designs for BPMV vectors to furtherenhance the potential of BPMV as a viral vector for functional genomics.According to the invention, the new designs provide vectors with theflexibility for use in VIGS and for expression of heterologous proteinsin legumous plants, particularly soybean. Previous BPMV vectors arebased solely on insertion of constructs between the movement protein andlarge coat protein of BPMV for expression of the same. This reduces genesilencing protocols to those of co-suppression constructs or othercoding constructs for gene silencing. Further, this insertion strategyrequires that the foreign sequences be in frame with the BPMV RNA2 openreading frame. Because of the translation requirement, primer design,particularly for high throughput applications, is laborious with theprevious vectors. In addition, potential interference of the translatedpeptide from the foreign sequence may result in unanticipatedphenotypes. Applicants have overcome these inconveniences, by providingBPMV vectors with an insertion site after the BPMV RNA2 translation stopcodon. Such placement, via an engineered restriction site, and/ormultiple cloning site allows insertion of non-coding sequences into theBPMV vector for functional analysis which does not require translation.Applicants vectors pBPMV V1 (pBPMV-IA-V1; SEQ ID NO:3) and pBPMV V2(pBPMV-IA-V2; SEQ ID NO:3) provide this improvement.

In a preferred embodiment, the BPMV vectors of the invention include theRNA2 post-translation insertion site as well as the traditional site forheterologous protein expression between the movement protein and longcoat protein, such as vector pBPMV V4 (pBPMV-IA-V4; SEQ ID NO:5). Otherimprovements include the addition of a second insertion site between themovement protein and long coat protein for double gene expression as invector pBPMV V5 (pBPMV-IA-V5; SEQ ID NO:6). This novel design provides aBPMV vector that can be used for VIGS as well as for heterologous geneexpression including applications such as cDNA library screening,promoter silencing, and silencing of un-translated regions of messengerRNAs. Further, RNA silencing and foreign gene expression can be achievedin a single BPMV viral construct making marker gene assisted silencingpossible. The new BPMV vectors, similar to the previously reported highefficiency DNA-based BPMV vectors, have the viral genome under controlof the CaMV 35S promoter and Nos terminator to overcome the disadvantageof an inefficient RNA-based vector.

Applicants also have used Foot and Mouth Disease Virus 2A proteinase(FMDV 2A) as a proteinase for excision of the heterologous proteins. Useof these rather than truncated portions of native BPMV sequencesprovides greater efficiency by reducing the possibility of recombinationof the vector among native sequences.

In yet another embodiment, applicant has prepared novel BPMV RNA1sequences to be used with RNA2 vectors to generate infectious clones.The novel RNA1 sequences allow for suitable visualization of viralinfection symptoms and result in improved phenotypic visualization ofthe VIGS affects. According to the invention, applicants have found thatmodifying a strain of BPMV RNA1 (I-Di1) protein at positions 359 and 365to a serine and tyrosine respectively produces BPMV infections with onlymoderate symptoms. The novel amino acid sequence is disclosed as SEQ IDNO:2, the nucleotide sequence is disclosed as SEQ ID NO:1(pBPMV-IA-R1M).

In accordance with the present invention, an efficient viral vectorsystem capable of rapidly producing significant amounts of heterologousproteins and of VIGS in higher plants is provided which comprises theuse of exemplary bipartite transgene/viral vectors.

Thus, in one aspect of the invention, a plant gene expression system isprovided which comprises a first gene construct comprising a truncatedRNA2 of a bipartite BPMV genome carrying at least one foreign geneencoding a heterologous protein of interest operably linked to promoterand terminator sequences; or a nontranslated sequence designed for VIGS,and a second gene construct comprising RNA1 of said bipartite BPMV virusgenome operably linked to promoter and terminator sequences. In anotherembodiment, RNA1 is modified for only moderate disease symptoms afterinfection. The constructs may be expressed transiently or stablyincorporated in plant cells. Alternatively, constructs may be introducedinto plant cells via crossing or agro infiltration. In a preferredembodiment, at least one construct is expressed transiently or at leastone construct is stably integrated into the genome of said plant cell.Most preferably, the RNA2 of the system is truncated such that noinfectious virus is produced.

In another aspect of the invention, a gene construct encoding atruncated RNA2 molecule operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding aheterologous protein of interest, each being further optionally linkedto promoter and terminator sequences functional in a plant cell isprovided.

In another aspect of the invention, a VIGS construct encoding atruncated RNA2 molecule linked to a non-coding or nucleic acid designedfor VIGS. In some embodiments the nucleic acid which needs to betranscribed for VIGS will be further optionally linked to promoter andterminator sequences functional in a plant cell. Exemplary truncatedRNA2 molecules include, for example, those having a deletion of greaterthan 2700 nucleotides in the RNA2 sequence. Heterologous proteins ofinterest include, without limitation, multimeric proteins, cytokines,vaccines, enzymes, growth factors, receptors, interferons, hematopoeiticagents, pituitary hormones, thyroid hormones, hypothalamic hormones,albumin, insulin and pancreatic hormones. In a preferred aspect of theinvention, the system is employed to produce antibodies with affinityfor proteins having commercial or therapeutic value.

Also included in the present invention are plants comprising the geneexpression system described above, and plant cells or progeny obtainedtherefrom.

In yet another aspect of the invention, a method for expressing aforeign gene or for VIGS in a plant cell is provided by using the BPMVvectors of the invention. An exemplary method comprises providing afirst gene construct, said construct comprising at least one truncatedRNA2 construct of a bipartite BPMV genome and at least one nucleic acidencoding a heterologous protein of interest operably linked to promoterand terminator sequences or a VIGS construct which in certainembodiments may be operably linked to promoter and terminator sequences;providing a second gene construct, said construct comprising RNA1 ofsaid BPMV bipartite virus genome; and introducing said first and secondconstructs into a plant cell, thereby producing said heterologousprotein of interest or, alternatively transcription and/or translationof the VIGS construct. In some embodiments the same RNA2 may includeboth protein expression and VIGS in the same construct.

In a preferred embodiment the RNA1 is modified so that the plant onlyexperiences moderate symptoms of BMPV. The constructs of the inventionmay be introduced into said plant cell simultaneously or sequentially.They may be expressed transiently, or stably incorporated into the plantcell genome. Alternatively, the constructs may be introduced viacrossing with plant cells harboring said construct. Most preferably, thetruncation of RNA2 prevents the production of infectious viral particlesin the presence of functional RNA1. The constructs of the invention mayeach possess discrete promoter and terminator sequences. Alternatively,they may be operably linked in a polycistronic fashion such that asingle promoter and a single terminator control the expression of atleast two coding regions.

DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

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FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of the CaMV 35S promoter drivenBPMV vector. A, BPMV genomic RNA1 and RNA2 are expressed under controlof the CaMV 35S promoter and Nos terminator. B, Cloning site forinsertion of foreign sequences into BPMV RNA2. MP, movement protein;L-CP, large coat protein subunit; S-CP, small coat protein subunit;FMDV-2A, Foot and mouth disease virus 2A proteinase.

FIG. 2 is a linear map depicting the R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) vector with themodifications of the invention.

FIG. 3 is a linear map depicting the pBPMV V1 (pBPMV-IA-V1) vector ofthe invention.

FIG. 4 is a linear map depicting the pBPMV V2 (pBPMV-IA-V2) vector ofthe invention.

FIG. 5 is a linear map depicting the pBPMV V4 (pBPMV-IA-V4) vector ofthe invention.

FIG. 6 is a linear map depicting the pBPMV V5 (pBPMV-IA-V5) vector ofthe invention.

FIG. 7 depicts modification of BPMV RNA1 with moderate symptoms. A,Alignment of the helicase gene amino acid of selected BPMV strains andisolates. The three differences are highlighted with * and relativepositions are indicated above *. The GeneBank accession numbers for theBPMV RNA1s are IL-Cb1 (I) (AY744931), K-Hal (AF394606), K-G7 (U70866),IL-Cb1 (II) (AY744932) and K-Ho1 (AF394608). B, shoot phenotypes on theWilliams soybean cultivar induced by different BPMV infectious RNA1clones. Plants were photographed at 3 weeks post inoculation. Mock,mock-inoculated control. Infectious BPMV RNA 2 clone pBPMV-R2 was usedas the RNA2 component for all infectious RNA1 clones. All plants weremaintained in a growth chamber at 20° C. with a photoperiod of 16 hours.

FIG. 8 is an alignment of the amino acid sequences of variant BPMV RNA1proteins including the modified RNA1 proteins of the invention.

FIG. 9 is a comparison of K-G7 and the R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1) sequence of theinvention.

FIG. 10 is an alignment of the nucleotide sequences encoding the variantBPMV RNA1 in FIG. 8.

FIG. 11 is a series of photographs depicting the soybean PDS genesilencing induced by different fragments and insertion orientations. A,Diagram of soybean PDS gene organization. Primers for amplification ofdifferent regions are indicated by hollow arrows on PDS gene. The singleORF is illustrated above the gene. The middle region between primerspF1130 and pR1520 is used as template for probe preparation. B, SoybeanPDS gene silencing induced by different VIGS constructs. Plants werephotographed at 3 weeks post inoculation. pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) wasused as RNA1 clone for all inoculations. The RNA2 VIGS constructs usedare PDS-F1 (pBPMV-PDS-F1, sense insertion), PDS-R1 (pBPMV-PDS-R1,antisense insertion), PDS-F2 (pBPMV-PDS-F2, sense insertion), PDS-R2(pBPMV-PDS-R2, antisense insertion), PDS-F3 (pBPMV-PDS-F3, senseinsertion), PDS-R3 (pBPMV-PDS-R3, antisense insertion), PDS-F4(pBPMV-PDS-F4, sense insertion) and PDS-R4 (pBPMV-PDS-R4, antisenseinsertion). Mock, mock-inoculated control. Vector, empty vector controlinoculated with pBPMV-R2. PDS-R3 induced the strongest PDSphotobleaching phenotype. All plants were maintained in a growth chamberat 20° C. with a photoperiod of 16 hours.

FIG. 12 is a series of photographs depicting the BPMV RNA2 accumulationsand changes in the soybean PDS gene mRNA levels induced by VIGS.Northern blot analysis was used to assess the PDS mRNA levels in soybeanplants inoculated by different soybean PDS gene silencing constructstargeting different regions and with different insertion orientations.A, equivalent RNA loading was assessed by ethidium bromide staining oftotal RNA extracted from the third and fourth trifoliolates of infectedplants by the BPMV VIGS constructs shown in FIG. 11. B, Northern blotanalysis of BPMV RNA2 accumulation using probes prepared from the PCRproducts using primer pair R2-1548F and R2-2688R (Table I). C, Northernblot analysis of PDS mRNA levels induced by different VIGS constructs.The PDS Probe was prepared from middle region using primers pF1130 andpR1520 (FIG. 11A). D. Percentage of the BPMV RNA2 accumulation levels ofeach VIGS construct compared to the levels in vector control plants. Therelative levels of the BPMV RNA2 accumulation were calculated bydividing the radioactivity signal of the VIGS treatments by the signalfor the vector control. E. Percentage of the PDS mRNA levels induced byeach VIGS construct compared to the levels in vector control plants. Therelative levels of the PDS mRNA accumulation were calculated by dividingthe radioactivity signal of the VIGS treatments by the signal for thevector control.

FIG. 13 is a series of photographs showing the diverse symptoms inducedby BPMV vector recombinants expressing foreign genes. pBPMV-R1B(pBPMV-IA-R1M) was used as the RNA1 clone for all inoculations. Plantswere photographed at 3 weeks post inoculation. The BPMV viral geneexpression and VIGS constructs are GFP (pBPMV-GFP2), BAR (pBPMV-BAR),BAR+PDS (pBPMV-BAR-PDS), pBPMV-P19 (pBPMV-P19), TBSV-P19+PDS(pBPMV-P19-PDS), GFP+BAR (pBPMV-GFP+BAR) and GFP+PDS (pBPMV-GFP-PDS).Mock and Vector are describe in FIG. 11. All plants were maintained in agrowth chamber at 20° C. with a photoperiod of 16 hours. Note TBSV-P19and TBSV-P19+PDS both induced massive necrosis.

FIG. 14 includes photographs showing BAR gene expression by BPMV vectorprovides herbicide resistance. pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) was used as theRNA1 clone for all inoculations. The BPMV viral gene expressionconstructs are BAR (pBPMV-BAR) and GFP+BAR (pBPMV-GFP+BAR). Mock andVector are describe in FIG. 11 All plants were maintained in agreenhouse room with a photoperiod of 16 hours. Soybean seedlings wereinoculated when the primary leaves are fully expanded. Three weekspost-inoculation, plants were treated with the herbicide (0.05% aminoglufosinate in deionized water). Photographs were taken three weeksafter the herbicide treatment. BAR and GFP+BAR conferred herbicideresistance while the mock and vector treated plants were killed.

FIG. 15 is a group of photographs demonstrating GFP gene expression insoybean. Green fluorescence on systemic leaves of soybean plants wasexamined by epifluorescence photography. pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) wasused as RNA1 clone for all inoculations. The BPMV viral gene expressionconstructs are GFP (pBPMV-GFP2), GFP+BAR (pBPMV-GFP+BAR) and GFP+PDS(pBPMV-GFP+PDS). Mock and Vector are describe in FIG. 11. All plantswere maintained in a growth chamber at 20° C. with a photoperiod of 16hours. Soybean seedlings were inoculated when the primary leaves arefully expanded. The third trifoliolates were photographed three weekspost inoculation for all treatments except for GFP+PDS which is thefourth trifoliolate. A, Pictures were taken under natural light. B, Thesame leaves in A were photographed under UV excitation for GFPfluorescence. Note the green fluorescence in panel B for constructs GFP,GFP+BAR and GFP+PDS.

FIG. 16 is a series of photographs showing GFP gene expression insoybean roots. Green fluorescence in soybean roots was examined byepifluorescence photography. pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) was used as theRNA1 clone for all inoculations. Mock and Vector are describe in FIG.11. All plants were maintained in a growth chamber at 20° C. with aphotoperiod of 16 hours. Soybean plants were inoculated when the primaryleaves are fully expanded. Three weeks post-inoculation, soybean rootswere rinsed with water and photographed under either natural light(upper panel) or UV excitation for GFP fluorescence (lower panel). Notethe green fluorescence in panel B for constructs pBPMV-GFP2 andpBPMV-GFP+BAR.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The following definitions are provided to facilitate an understanding ofthe present invention.

The phrase “bipartite transgene containing viral vector” refers to a twopart viral replication system for production of heterologous proteins ofinterest. Exemplified herein are members of the Comovirus BPMV, whichare in the picornavirus superfamily and possess non-enveloped,icosahedral capsids, and bipartite, single stranded positive sense RNAgenomes. BPMV strains useful in the practice of the invention and theirrespective GenBank accession numbers are as follows: DQ 139274, AY744933, AY744932, AY 744931, NC 003496, NC003495, FJ 185223, FJ 185222,EF 528583, AJ 269536, AF394609, AF394608, AF394607, AF 394606, AF330210,AF330209, AF330208, AF330207, AF 330206, AF 448497, AF 070866, M62738.RNA1 and RNA1 sequences isolated from these other BPMV can be truncatedand operably linked to a heterologous sequences, or modified to provideonly moderate symptoms according to the invention as described herein.

“Plant” species of interest include, but are not limited to, soybean(Glycine max), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), Peanuts (Arachishypogaea), Medicago sativa, corn (Zea mays), Brassica sp. (e.g., B.napus, B. rapa, B. juncea), particularly those Brassica species usefulas sources of seed oil, alfalfa (Medicago sativa), rice (Oryza sativa),rye (Secale cereale), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, Sorghum vulgare), millet(e.g., pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)), proso millet (Panicummiliaceum), foxtail millet (Setaria italica), finger millet (Eleusinecoracana)), sunflower (Helianthus annuus), safflower (Carthamustinctorius), wheat (Triticum aestivum), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum),potato (Solanum tuberosum), peanuts (Arachis hypogaea), cotton(Gossypium barbadense, Gossypium hirsutum), sweet potato (Ipomoeabatatus), cassava (Manihot esculenta), coffee (Coffea spp.), coconut(Cocos nucifera), pineapple (Ananas comosus), citrus trees (Citrusspp.), cocoa (Theobroma cacao), tea (Camellia sinensis), banana (Musaspp.), avocado (Persea americana), fig (Ficus casica), guava (Psidiumguajava), mango (Mangifera indica), olive (Olea europaea), papaya(Carica papaya), cashew (Anacardium occidentale), macadamia (Macadamiaintegrifolia), almond (Prunus amygdalus), sugar beets (Beta vulgaris),sugarcane (Saccharum spp.), oats, barley, vegetables, ornamentals, andconifers. The skilled person will appreciate that the tropism of theviral vectors disclosed herein varies. However, determiningsusceptibility to such viruses is well within the purview of the skilledperson. Moreover, it may be possible to alter such specificity byrecombinantly expressing receptors which facilitate viral entry into aplant cell.

“Nucleic acid” or a “nucleic acid molecule” as used herein refers to anyDNA or RNA molecule, either single or double stranded and, if singlestranded, the molecule of its complementary sequence in either linear orcircular form. In discussing nucleic acid molecules, a sequence orstructure of a particular nucleic acid molecule may be described hereinaccording to the normal convention of providing the sequence in the 5′to 3′ direction. With reference to nucleic acids of the invention, theterm “isolated nucleic acid” is sometimes used. This term, when appliedto DNA, refers to a DNA molecule that is separated from sequences withwhich it is immediately contiguous in the naturally occurring genome ofthe organism in which it originated. For example, an “isolated nucleicacid” may comprise a DNA molecule inserted into a vector, such as aplasmid or virus vector, or integrated into the genomic DNA of aprokaryotic or eukaryotic cell or host organism.

When applied to RNA, the term “isolated nucleic acid” refers primarilyto an RNA molecule encoded by an isolated DNA molecule as defined above.Alternatively, the term may refer to an RNA molecule that has beensufficiently separated from other nucleic acids with which it would beassociated in its natural state (i.e., in cells or tissues). An“isolated nucleic acid” (either DNA or RNA) may further represent amolecule produced directly by biological or synthetic means andseparated from other components present during its production.

The terms “percent similarity”, “percent identity” and “percenthomology” when referring to a particular sequence are used as set forthin the University of Wisconsin GCG software program.

The term “substantially pure” refers to a preparation comprising atleast 50-60% by weight of a given material (e.g., nucleic acid,oligonucleotide, protein, etc.)., More preferably, the preparationcomprises at least 75% by weight, and most preferably 90-95% by weightof the given compound. Purity is measured by methods appropriate for thegiven compound (e.g. chromatographic methods, agarose or polyacrylamidegel electrophoresis, HPLC analysis, and the like).

A “replicon” is any genetic element, for example, a plasmid, cosmid,bacmid, plastid, phage or virus that is capable of replication largelyunder its own control. A replicon may be either RNA or DNA and may besingle or double stranded.

A “vector” is a replicon, such as a plasmid, cosmid, bacmid, phage orvirus, to which another genetic sequence or element (either DNA or RNA)may be attached so as to bring about the replication of the attachedsequence or element.

An “expression operon” refers to a nucleic acid segment that may possesstranscriptional and translational control sequences, such as promoters,enhancers, translational start signals (e.g., ATG or AUG codons),polyadenylation signals, terminators, and the like, and which facilitatethe expression of a polypeptide coding sequence in a host cell ororganism.

The term “oligonucleotide” as used herein refers to sequences, primersand probes of the present invention, and is defined as a nucleic acidmolecule comprised of two or more ribo- or deoxyribonucleotides,preferably more than three. The exact size of the oligonucleotide willdepend on various factors and on the particular application and use ofthe oligonucleotide.

The phrase “specifically hybridize” refers to the association betweentwo single-stranded nucleic acid molecules of sufficiently complementarysequence to permit such hybridization under pre-determined conditionsgenerally used in the art (sometimes termed “substantiallycomplementary”). In particular, the term refers to hybridization of anoligonucleotide with a substantially complementary sequence containedwithin a single-stranded DNA or RNA molecule of the invention, to thesubstantial exclusion of hybridization of the oligonucleotide withsingle-stranded nucleic acids of non-complementary sequence.

The term “probe” as used herein refers to an oligonucleotide,polynucleotide or nucleic acid, either RNA or DNA, whether occurringnaturally as in a purified restriction enzyme digest or producedsynthetically, which is capable of annealing with or specificallyhybridizing to a nucleic acid with sequences complementary to the probe.A probe may be either single-stranded or double-stranded. The exactlength of the probe will depend upon many factors, includingtemperature, source of probe and method of use. For example, fordiagnostic applications, depending on the complexity of the targetsequence, the oligonucleotide probe typically contains 15-25 or morenucleotides, although it may contain fewer nucleotides. The probesherein are selected to be “substantially” complementary to differentstrands of a particular target nucleic acid sequence. This means thatthe probes must be sufficiently complementary so as to be able to“specifically hybridize” or anneal with their respective target strandsunder a set of pre-determined conditions. Therefore, the probe sequenceneed not reflect the exact complementary sequence of the target. Forexample, a non-complementary nucleotide fragment may be attached to the5′ or 3′ end of the probe, with the remainder of the probe sequencebeing complementary to the target strand. Alternatively,non-complementary bases or longer sequences can be interspersed into theprobe, provided that the probe sequence has sufficient complementaritywith the sequence of the target nucleic acid to anneal therewithspecifically.

The term “primer” as used herein refers to an oligonucleotide, eitherRNA or DNA, either single-stranded or double-stranded, either derivedfrom a biological system, generated by restriction enzyme digestion, orproduced synthetically which, when placed in the proper environment, isable to functionally act as an initiator of template-dependent nucleicacid synthesis. When presented with an appropriate nucleic acidtemplate, suitable nucleoside triphosphate precursors of nucleic acids,a polymerase enzyme, suitable cofactors and conditions such asappropriate temperature and pH, the primer may be extended at its 3′terminus by the addition of nucleotides by the action of a polymerase orsimilar activity to yield a primer extension product. The primer mayvary in length depending on the particular conditions and requirement ofthe application. For example, in diagnostic applications, theoligonucleotide primer is typically 15-25 or more nucleotides in length.The primer must be of sufficient complementarity to the desired templateto prime the synthesis of the desired extension product, that is, to beable to anneal with the desired template strand in a manner sufficientto provide the 3′ hydroxyl moiety of the primer in appropriatejuxtaposition for use in the initiation of synthesis by a polymerase orsimilar enzyme. It is not required that the primer sequence represent anexact complement of the desired template. For example, anon-complementary nucleotide sequence may be attached to the 5′ end ofan otherwise complementary primer. Alternatively, non-complementarybases may be interspersed within the oligonucleotide primer sequence,provided that the primer sequence has sufficient complementarity withthe sequence of the desired template strand to functionally provide atemplate-primer complex for the synthesis of the extension product.

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been described in U.S. Pat. Nos.4,683,195, 4,800,195, and 4,965,188, the entire disclosures of which areincorporated by reference herein.

As used herein, the terms “reporter,” “reporter system”, “reportergene,” or “reporter gene product” shall mean an operative genetic systemin which a nucleic acid comprises a gene that encodes a product thatwhen expressed produces a reporter signal that is a readily measurable,e.g., by biological assay, immunoassay, radio immunoassay, or bycalorimetric, fluorogenic, chemiluminescent or other methods. Thenucleic acid may be either RNA or DNA, linear or circular, single ordouble stranded, antisense or sense polarity, and is operatively linkedto the necessary control elements for the expression of the reportergene product. The required control elements will vary according to thenature of the reporter system and whether the reporter gene is in theform of DNA or RNA, but may include, but not be limited to, suchelements as promoters, enhancers, translational control sequences, polyA addition signals, transcriptional termination signals and the like.

The terms “transform”, “transfect”, “transduce”, shall refer to anymethod or means by which a nucleic acid is introduced into a cell orhost organism and may be used interchangeably to convey the samemeaning. Such methods include, but are not limited to, transfection,electroporation, microinjection, PEG-fusion and the like.

The introduced nucleic acid may or may not be integrated (covalentlylinked) into nucleic acid of the recipient cell or organism. Inbacterial, yeast, plant and mammalian cells, for example, the introducednucleic acid may be maintained as an episomal element or independentreplicon such as a plasmid. Alternatively, the introduced nucleic acidmay become integrated into the nucleic acid of the recipient cell ororganism and be stably maintained in that cell or organism and furtherpassed on or inherited to progeny cells or organisms of the recipientcell or organism. Finally, the introduced nucleic acid may exist in therecipient cell or host organism only transiently.

The term “selectable marker gene” refers to a gene that when expressedconfers a selectable phenotype, such as antibiotic resistance, on atransformed cell or plant. A number of “selectable marker genes” areknown in the art and several antibiotic resistance markers satisfy thesecriteria, including those resistant to kanamycin (nptII), hygromycin B(aph IV) and gentamycin (aac3 and aacC4). Useful dominant selectablemarker genes include genes encoding antibiotic resistance genes (e.g.,resistance to hygromycin, kanamycin, bleomycin, G418, streptomycin orspectinomycin); and herbicide resistance genes (e.g., phosphinothricinacetyltransferase). A useful strategy for selection of transformants forherbicide resistance is described, e.g., in Vasil, Cell Culture andSomatic Cell Genetics of Plants, Vols. I III, Laboratory Procedures andTheir Applications Academic Press, New York, 1984. Particularlypreferred selectable marker genes for use in the present invention wouldbe genes which confer resistance to compounds such as antibiotics likekanamycin, and herbicides like glyphosate (Della-Cioppa et al.,Bio/Technology 5(6), 1987, U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,463,175, 5,633,435). Otherselection devices can also be implemented and would still fall withinthe scope of the present invention.

The term “operably linked” means that the regulatory sequences necessaryfor expression of the coding sequence are placed in the DNA molecule inthe appropriate positions relative to the coding sequence so as toeffect expression of the coding sequence. This same definition issometimes applied to the arrangement of transcription units and othertranscription control elements (e.g. enhancers) in an expression vector.

“Native” refers to a naturally occurring (“wild-type”) nucleic acidsequence.

“Heterologous” sequence refers to a sequence which originates from aforeign source or species or, if from the same source, is modified fromits original form.

A “coding sequence” or “coding region” refers to a nucleic acid moleculehaving sequence information necessary to produce a gene product, whenthe sequence is expressed.

“Genetic component” refers to any nucleic acid sequence or geneticelement which may also be a component or part of an expression vector.Examples of genetic components include, but are not limited to promoterregions, 5′ untranslated leaders or promoters, introns, genes, 3′untranslated regions or terminators, and other regulatory sequences orsequences which affect transcription or translation of one or morenucleic acid sequences.

“Complementary” refers to the natural association of nucleic acidsequences by base-pairing (A-G-T pairs with the complementary sequenceT-C-A). Complementarity between two single-stranded molecules may bepartial, if only some of the nucleic acids pair are complementary; orcomplete, if all bases pair are complementary. The degree ofcomplementarity affects the efficiency and strength of hybridization andamplification reactions.

“Homology” refers to the level of similarity between nucleic acid oramino acid sequences in terms of percent nucleotide or amino acidpositional identity, respectively, i.e., sequence similarity oridentity. Homology also refers to the concept of similar functionalproperties among different nucleic acids or proteins.

“Promoter” refers to a nucleic acid sequence located upstream or 5′ to atranslational start codon of an open reading frame (or protein-codingregion) of a gene and that is involved in recognition and binding of RNApolymerase II and other proteins (trans-acting transcription factors) toinitiate transcription. A “plant promoter” is a native or non-nativepromoter that is functional in plant cells. Constitutive promoters arefunctional in most or all tissues of a plant throughout plantdevelopment. Tissue-, organ- or cell-specific promoters are expressedonly or predominantly in a particular tissue, organ, or cell type,respectively. Rather than being expressed “specifically” in a giventissue, organ, or cell type, a promoter may display “enhanced”expression, i.e., a higher level of expression, in one part (e.g., celltype, tissue, or organ) of the plant compared to other parts of theplant. Temporally regulated promoters are functional only orpredominantly during certain periods of plant development or at certaintimes of day, as in the case of genes associated with circadian rhythm,for example. Inducible promoters selectively express an operably linkedDNA sequence in response to the presence of an endogenous or exogenousstimulus, for example by chemical compounds (chemical inducers) or inresponse to environmental, hormonal, chemical, and/or developmentalsignals. Inducible or regulated promoters include, for example,promoters regulated by light, heat, stress, flooding or drought,phytohormones, wounding, or chemicals such as ethanol, jasmonate,salicylic acid, or safeners.

When fused to heterologous DNA sequences, such promoters typically causethe fused sequence to be transcribed in a manner that is similar to thatof the gene sequence with which the promoter is normally associated.Promoter fragments that include regulatory sequences can be added (forexample, fused to the 5′ end of, or inserted within, an active promoterhaving its own partial or complete regulatory sequences (Fluhr et al.,Science 232:1106 1112, 1986; Ellis et al., EMBO J. 6:1116, 1987;Strittmatter and Chua, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 84:8986 8990, 1987;Poulsen and Chua, Mol. Gen. Genet. 214:16 23, 1988; Comai et al., PlantMol. Biol. 15:373 381, 1991).

The 3′ non-translated region of the gene constructs of the inventioncontain a transcriptional terminator, or an element having equivalentfunction, and, optionally, a polyadenylation signal, which functions inplants to cause the addition of polyadenylated nucleotides to the 3′ endof the RNA. Examples of suitable 3′ regions are (1) the 3′ transcribed,non-translated regions containing the polyadenylation signal ofAgrobacterium tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid genes, such as the nopalinesynthase (Nos) gene, and (2) plant genes such as the soybean storageprotein genes and the small subunit of the ribulose-1,5-bisphosphatecarboxylase (ssRUBISCO) gene. An example of another 3′ region is thatfrom the ssRUBISCO E9 gene from pea (European Patent Application385,962, herein incorporated by reference in its entirety).

Typically, DNA sequences located a few hundred base pairs downstream ofthe polyadenylation site serve to terminate transcription. The DNAsequences are referred to herein as transcription-termination regions.The regions are required for efficient polyadenylation of transcribedmessenger RNA (mRNA) and are known as 3′ non-translated regions. RNApolymerase transcribes a coding DNA sequence through a site wherepolyadenylation occurs.

The phrase “consisting essentially of” when referring to a particularnucleotide or amino acid means a sequence having the properties of agiven SEQ ID NO. For example, when used in reference to an amino acidsequence, the phrase includes the sequence per se and molecularmodifications that would not affect the basic and novel characteristicsof the sequence.

The phrase “suppressor of gene silencing” refers to virally encodedproteins expressed in plants that suppress PTGS. An exemplary suppressorof PTGS, the helper component-proteinase (Hc-Pro) protein encoded by aplant potyvirus, is described herein. Sequence information for HcPro isfound in GeneBank accession number PVY NC_(—)001616 and PVY HCPro:AY518295.

An “antibody” or “antibody molecule” is any immunoglobulin, includingantibodies and fragments thereof, that binds to a specific antigen, suchas epitopes of an apoptosis modulator protein. The term includespolyclonal, monoclonal, chimeric, and bispecific antibodies. As usedherein, antibody or antibody molecule contemplates both an intactimmunoglobulin molecule and an immunologically active portion of animmunoglobulin molecule such as those portions known in the art as Fab,Fab′, F(ab′)₂ and F(v).

As used herein, “transgenic plant” includes reference to a plant thatcomprises within its nuclear genome a heterologous polynucleotide.Generally, the heterologous polynucleotide is stably integrated withinthe nuclear genome such that the polynucleotide is passed on tosuccessive generations. The heterologous polynucleotide may beintegrated into the genome alone or as part of a recombinant expressioncassette. “Transgenic” is used herein to include any cell, cell line,callus, tissue, plant part or plant, the genotype of which has beenaltered by the presence of heterologous nucleic acid including thosetransgenics initially so altered as well as those created by sexualcrosses or asexual propagation from the initial transgenic. The term“transgenic” as used herein does not encompass the alteration of thegenome (chromosomal or extra-chromosomal) by conventional plant breedingmethods or by naturally occurring events such as randomcross-fertilization, non-recombinant viral infection, non-recombinantbacterial transformation, non-recombinant transposition, or spontaneousmutation.

As used herein, “VIGS” means virus-induced gene silencing.

As used herein, “viral silencing vector” means a DNA constructcomprising (i) a sufficient portion of a viral genome to induce VIGS and(ii) a nucleotide sequence that is similar (i.e., a sequence that has asufficient percent identity or a sufficient percent complementarity toeffect down regulation) to at least a fragment of a target gene, whereinthe target gene is down-regulated when the viral silencing vector isintroduced into a cell. For example, in order to affect VIGS in a plant,the portion of the viral genome required to affect VIGS may include thatportion responsible for viral movement and viral replication in theplant. As is known to those skilled in the art, each virus/hostcombination should be optimized for producing effective silencingvectors. In the present invention, the viral genome includes all genesexcept those encoding the coat protein. However, it is to be understoodthat other optimized vectors can be used and are included within thescope of the applicant's teachings. For example, the silencing vectormay include the origin of replication, the genes necessary forreplication in a plant cell, and one or more nucleotide sequences withsimilarity to one or more target genes. The vector may also includethose genes necessary for viral movement. In the case of bipartiteviruses, for example geminiviruses, the A and B components may becarried in the same silencing vector. Alternatively, the plant may betransformed with both components on separate vectors. Further, in oneexample, the A genome component of a geminivirus (which replicatesautonomously) was shown to be sufficient for VIGS, as was the Bcomponent (WO 01/94694 and US Patent Application Publication Number2002/0148005, both of which are incorporated herein by reference). Othersilencing vectors are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,759,571 and US PatentApplication Publication Number 2004/0019930, both of which are hereinincorporated by reference. The nucleotide sequence that is similar to atleast a fragment of a target gene may replace any coding or non-codingregion that is nonessential for the present purposes of gene silencing,may be inserted into the vector outside the viral sequences, or may beinserted just downstream of an endogenous viral gene, such that theviral gene and the nucleotide sequence are cotranscribed. The size ofthe nucleotide sequence that is similar to the target gene may depend onthe site of insertion or replacement within the viral genome.Accordingly, there are many ways of producing silencing vectors, asknown to those skilled in the art.

BPMV is a member of the genus Comovirus in the family Comoviridae(Lomonossoff and Ghabrial, Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology, Vol. 1(2001)). BPMV has a bipartite positive-strand RNA genome consisting ofRNA1 (approximately 6.0 kb) and RNA2 (approximately 3.6 kb) that areseparately encapsidated in isometric particles 28 nm in diameter. TheBPMV genome is expressed via the synthesis and subsequent proteolyticprocessing of polyprotein precursors. BPMV RNA1 codes for five matureproteins required for replication, whereas RNA2 codes for a putativecell-to-cell movement protein (MP) and the two coat proteins (L-CP andSCP). As disclosed herein, stable VIGS BPMV-based vectors can begenerated by inserting the VIGS construct after the translationtruncation signal of the RNA2-encoded polyprotein open reading frame.Additionally, stable BPMV-based vectors which can be used for eitherVIGS or heterologous protein expression can be generated by optionallyinserting the foreign gene construct into the RNA2 sequence between theMP and L-CP coding regions, and constructing additional proteinasecleavage sites to flank the foreign protein. In a preferred embodimentthe proteinase cleavage sites are FMDV-2A.

Plant virus-based vectors provide valuable tools for expression offoreign proteins in plants and for gene function studies. As disclosedherein, Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV)-based vectors are useful for geneexpression and virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) in plants such assoybean. The genes of interest or the VIGS construct are inserted intothe RNA2-encoded polyprotein open reading frame not only between themovement protein (MP) and the large coat protein (L-CP) coding regionsas previous vectors, but after the BPMV RNA2 stop codon. There may ormay not be an insertion between the movement protein and large coatprotein as in other previous BPMV vectors. The placement of theinsertion site after the stop codon avoids the requirement of in framereading of the foreign sequences. It also allows the insertion ofnoncoding sequences for functional analysis. The novel recombinant BPMVconstructs were stable following several serial passages in soybean andrelatively high levels of protein expression were attained. SuccessfulVIGS was also demonstrated. The results disclosed herein indicate thatthe BPMV-based vectors are suitable for expression of foreign proteinsin soybean and for functional genomics applications.

In one embodiment, the invention provides a Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV)vector containing a nucleic acid sequence encoding an RNA2 polyproteinopen reading frame (ORF), wherein the RNA2 polyprotein ORF comprises afirst and second protease cleavage site such as a FMDV 2A, wherein thenucleic acid sequences encoding the first and second protease cleavagesite differ sufficiently to reduce homologous recombination between thenucleic acid sequences. The protease cleavage sites are located afterthe RNA2 polyprotein stop codon and optionally between the movementprotein (MP) and large coat protein (L-CP) and. The vector can containrestriction sites for insertion of a heterologous sequence between theprotease cleavage sites.

As used herein, a “Bean pod mottle virus vector” or “BPMV vector” refersto a nucleic acid vector that, on its own or in combination with othernucleic acids, is capable of generating BPMV when expressed in a hostcell or organism. A BPMV vector can be, for example, a BPMV genome suchas a genome contained in a whole virus. In addition, a BPMV vector canbe a plasmid encoding a portion of a BPMV genome. For example, asdisclosed herein, a plasmid encoding one of the two RNAs that comprisethe BPMV genome can be used as a BPMV vector that, when combined with asecond plasmid that contains the other RNA, results in the production ofBPMV virus (see Examples).

As used herein, an “RNA2 polyprotein” refers to the open reading frameencoded by an approximately 3.6 kb RNA, designated RNA2, found in BPMV,as previously described (see Gu et al., Phytopathology 92:446-452 (2002;Gu and Ghabrial, Virology 333:271-283 (2005)). A schematicrepresentations of the genome organization of BPMV vectors of theinvention is shown in FIGS. 1A-1C.

As used herein, a “protease cleavage site” refers to an amino acidsequence recognized and cleaved by a site-specific protease, forexample, a virally-encoded site-specific protease. Site-specificproteases are well known in the art. In the case where an expressionvector such as a BPMV vector of the invention is to be used in a hostplant such as soybean, it is understood that the site-specific proteasecleavage sites should be recognized by a site-specific protease, forexample, a site-specific protease encoded by BPMV RNA1, as disclosedherein. For example, in BPMV, the two RNA viral genomes expresspolyprotein precursors, which are processed post-translationally toproduce mature proteins. Thus, appropriate proteases are expressed thatallow proper processing of the polyprotein to mature proteins. Anexample of such a protease cleavage site is the FMDV 2A proteinase sitebetween the movement protein (MP) and large coat protein (L-CP) of theRNA2 polyprotein and at the end of the stop codon of the same (see FIG.1).

Applicants have engineered novel RNA1 sequences which can be usedaccording to the invention. RNA1 contains the coding regions of fiveproteins: from the 5′-end protease-cofactor (Co-pro), helicase (Hel),VPg, protease (Pro) and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Theintermediate polyproteins Hel+VPg and Pro+RdRp play important roles inreplication. The modifications as showing in SEQ ID NOS:1 and 2, and inFIGS. 7-10.

As used herein, the phrase “differ sufficiently to reduce homologousrecombination,” refers to a difference in homology between two nucleicacid sequences such that the amount of homologous recombination betweenthe sequences is reduced. For example, in an embodiment of the inventionin which a protease cleavage site is present as two copies, the nucleicacid sequences encoding the protease cleavage sites can be similar oridentical if the protease cleavage sites are similar or identical. Insuch a case, the homology between the nucleic acid sequences encodingthe protease cleavage site can undergo homologous recombination. In thecase where a nucleic acid encoding a heterologous polypeptide isinserted between the protease cleavage sites, homologous recombinationwould result in loss of the heterologous sequence and thereforedecreased expression of the heterologous polypeptide. To minimize thechance of recombination, the nucleic acid sequences encoding the twocopies of the protease cleavage site can be modified based on thedegeneracy of the genetic code such that the same amino acids areencoded. For example, in a particular embodiment the third nucleotide ofeach codon is changed in one copy of protease cleavage site so that theencoded amino acids remain the same. Although exemplified with one ofthe nucleic acid sequences encoding one of the protease cleavage sitesbeing modified, it is understood that one or both sequences can bemodified so long as there is a sufficient difference in homology toreduce homologous recombination between the sequences. For example,instead of modifying one copy, it is possible to modify both nucleicacids, by alternating modified codons in the two copies, which wouldsimilarly result in reduced homology between the two sequences andtherefore reduce homologous recombination.

One skilled in the art can readily determine a difference in homologysufficient to reduce homologous recombination, for example, by usingvectors of the invention, inoculating a suitable host plant such assoybean and determining the amount of homologous recombination that hasoccurred. If homologous recombination has occurred at a level that makesa particular BPMV vector unsuitable for a particular use, one skilled inthe art can make further changes in homologous sequences in order toreduce the amount of recombination that occurs.

Thus, in a particular embodiment, the invention provides a vector inwhich each codon encoding the protease cleavage site differs between thenucleic acid sequences encoding the first protease cleavage site and thesecond protease cleavage site. In one embodiment, one of the proteasecleavage sites can comprise the FMDV 2A proteinase inserted after thetranslation stop codon. In still another embodiment, the vector canoptionally contain a nucleic acid sequence encoding a heterologouspolypeptide inserted between the first and second protease cleavagesites, for example, between BPMV movement protein (MP) and large coatprotein (L-CP).

The vectors of the invention may optionally include other sequencesknown to those of skill in the art such as marker genes, regulatoryelements, terminators, antibiotic resistance genes, and the like.

Regulatory Elements

Exemplary promoters for expression of a nucleic acid sequence in plantsinclude the CaMV 35S promoter (Odell et al., 1985), CaMV 19S (Lawton etal., 1987), nos (Ebert et al., 1987), Adh (Walker et al., 1987), sucrosesynthase (Yang and Russell, 1990), a-tubulin, actin (Wang et al., 1992),cab (Sullivan et al., 1989), PEPCase (Hudspeth and Grula, 1989) or Rgene complex associated promoters (Chandler et al., 1989). Tissuespecific promoters such as root cell promoters (Conkling et al., 1990)and tissue specific enhancers (Fromm et al., 1986) are also contemplatedto be useful, as are inducible promoters such as ABA- andturgor-inducible promoters. In one embodiment of the invention, thenative promoter of an isoflavone biosynthesis sequence is used. Inanother embodiment, a heterologous sequence is used.

The DNA sequence between the transcription initiation site and the startof the coding sequence, i.e., the untranslated leader sequence, can alsoinfluence gene expression. One may thus wish to employ a particularleader sequence with a transformation construct of the invention.Preferred leader sequences are contemplated to include those whichcomprise sequences predicted to direct optimum expression of theattached gene, i.e., to include a preferred consensus leader sequencewhich may increase or maintain mRNA stability and prevent inappropriateinitiation of translation. The choice of such sequences will be known tothose of skill in the art in light of the present disclosure. Sequencesthat are derived from genes that are highly expressed in plants willtypically be preferred.

It is envisioned that nucleic acids encoding a polypeptide as providedherein may be introduced under the control of novel promoters orenhancers, etc., or homologous or tissue specific promoters or controlelements. Vectors for use in tissue-specific targeting of genes intransgenic plants will typically include tissue-specific promoters andmay also include other tissue-specific control elements such as enhancersequences. Promoters which direct specific or enhanced expression incertain plant tissues will be known to those of skill in the art inlight of the present disclosure. These include, for example, the rbcSpromoter, specific for green tissue; the ocs, nos and mas promoterswhich have higher activity in roots or wounded leaf tissue.

Terminators

Transformation constructs prepared in accordance with the invention willtypically include a 3′ end DNA sequence that acts as a signal toterminate transcription and allow for the poly-adenylation of the mRNAproduced by coding sequences operably linked to a promoter.Alternatively, a heterologous 3′ end may enhance the expression ofcoding sequences. Examples of terminators that are deemed to be usefulin this context include those from the nopaline synthase gene ofAgrobacterium tumefaciens (nos 3′ end) (Bevan et al., 1983), theterminator for the T7 transcript from the octopine synthase gene ofAgrobacterium tumefaciens, and the 3′ end of the protease inhibitor I orII genes from potato or tomato. Regulatory elements such as an Adhintron (Callis et al., 1987), sucrose synthase intron (Vasil et al.,1989) or TMV omega element (Gallie et al., 1989), may further beincluded where desired.

Transit or Signal Peptides

Sequences that are joined to the coding sequence of an expressed gene,which are removed post-translationally from the initial translationproduct and which facilitate the transport of the protein into orthrough intracellular or extracellular membranes, are termed transit(usually into vacuoles, vesicles, plastids and other intracellularorganelles) and signal sequences (usually to the endoplasmic reticulum,golgi apparatus and outside of the cellular membrane). By facilitatingthe transport of the protein into compartments inside and outside thecell, these sequences may increase the accumulation of gene productprotecting them from proteolytic degradation. These sequences also allowfor additional mRNA sequences from highly expressed genes to be attachedto the coding sequence of the genes. Since mRNA being translated byribosomes is more stable than naked mRNA, the presence of translatablemRNA in front of the gene may increase the overall stability of the mRNAtranscript from the gene and thereby increase synthesis of the geneproduct. Since transit and signal sequences are usuallypost-translationally removed from the initial translation product, theuse of these sequences allows for the addition of extra translatedsequences that may not appear on the final polypeptide. It further iscontemplated that targeting of certain proteins may be desirable inorder to enhance the stability of the protein (U.S. Pat. No. 5,545,818,incorporated herein by reference in its entirety).

Additionally, vectors may be constructed and employed in theintracellular targeting of a specific gene product within the cells of atransgenic plant or in directing a protein to the extracellularenvironment. This generally will be achieved by joining a DNA sequenceencoding a transit or signal peptide sequence to the coding sequence ofa particular gene. The resultant transit, or signal, peptide willtransport the protein to a particular intracellular, or extracellulardestination, respectively, and will then be post-translationallyremoved.

Marker Genes

By employing a selectable or screenable marker protein, one can provideor enhance the ability to identify transformants. “Marker genes” aregenes that impart a distinct phenotype to cells expressing the markerprotein and thus allow such transformed cells to be distinguished fromcells that do not have the marker. Such genes may encode either aselectable or screenable marker, depending on whether the marker confersa trait which one can “select” for by chemical means, i.e., through theuse of a selective agent (e.g., a herbicide, antibiotic, or the like),or whether it is simply a trait that one can identify throughobservation or testing, i.e., by “screening” (e.g., the greenfluorescent protein). Of course, many examples of suitable markerproteins are known to the art and can be employed in the practice of theinvention.

Included within the terms selectable or screenable markers also aregenes which encode a “secretable marker” whose secretion can be detectedas a means of identifying or selecting for transformed cells. Examplesinclude markers which are secretable antigens that can be identified byantibody interaction, or even secretable enzymes which can be detectedby their catalytic activity.

Many selectable marker coding regions are known and could be used withthe present invention including, but not limited to, neo (Potrykus etal., 1985), which provides kanamycin resistance and can be selected forusing kanamycin, G418, paromomycin, etc.; bar, which confers bialaphosor phosphinothricin resistance; a mutant EPSP synthase protein (Hincheeet al., 1988) conferring glyphosate resistance; a nitrilase such as bxnfrom Klebsiella ozaenae which confers resistance to bromoxynil (Stalkeret al., 1988); a mutant acetolactate synthase (ALS) which confersresistance to imidazolinone, sulfonylurea or other ALS inhibitingchemicals (European Patent Application 154,204, 1985); a methotrexateresistant DHFR (Thillet et al., 1988), a dalapon dehalogenase thatconfers resistance to the herbicide dalapon; or a mutated anthranilatesynthase that confers resistance to 5-methyl tryptophan.

Screenable markers that may be employed include a β-glucuronidase (GUS)or uidA gene which encodes an enzyme for which various chromogenicsubstrates are known; an R-locus gene, which encodes a product thatregulates the production of anthocyanin pigments (red color) in planttissues (Dellaporta et al., 1988); a β-lactamase gene (Sutcliffe, 1978),which encodes an enzyme for which various chromogenic substrates areknown (e.g., PADAC, a chromogenic cephalosporin); a xylE gene (Zukowskyet al., 1983) which encodes a catechol dioxygenase that can convertchromogenic catechols; an α-amylase gene (Ikuta et al., 1990); atyrosinase gene (Katz et al., 1983) which encodes an enzyme capable ofoxidizing tyrosine to DOPA and dopaquinone which in turn condenses toform the easily-detectable compound melanin; a β-galactosidase gene,which encodes an enzyme for which there are chromogenic substrates; aluciferase (lux) gene (Ow et al., 1986), which allows forbioluminescence detection; or a gene encoding for green fluorescentprotein (Sheen et al., 1995; Haseloff et al., 1997; Reichel et al.,1996; Tian et al., 1997; WO 97/41228).

A heterologous nucleotide sequence of the present invention can beprovided as its wild-type sequence. Alternatively, a synthetic sequence,such as a “plant-optimized” sequence mentioned above can be employed. Anucleotide sequence having a high degree of homology to these sequences,so that the encoded amino acid sequence remains substantially unchanged,are also contemplated. In particular, sequences at least 80%, morepreferably 90%, homologous with an aforementioned nucleotide sequenceare contemplated. It should be noted, however, that only that thoseepitopes of an expressed antigenic protein essential for generating thedesired immune response need be present in the translated molecule.Accordingly, C- and/or N-terminal fragments, including portions offusion proteins, presenting the essential epitopes are contemplatedwithin the invention. Such fragments can be encoded in a vectorconstruct of the invention or can be generated in vivo or in vitro bypost-translation cleavage processes.

A transgenic plant transformed with a BPMV vector described hereinaboveis another aspect of the present invention. Particularly preferred planthosts for the vector include soybean and other legumes.

The Vectors of the invention had many uses in plant transformation andresearch technologies. Examples of such uses include the following.

A. Gene Amplification

The constructs of the present invention can be used to amplify a gene ofinterest. According to the method of the invention, a gene of interestis amplified in the presence of a Rep protein, preferably about 10-fold,more preferably about 30-fold and most preferably about 100-fold, ascompared to a gene of interest in the absence of a Rep protein.

B. Protein Production

The constructs of the present invention can be used to overproduce aprotein of interest. According to the method of the invention, a proteinof interest is overproduced in the presence of a Rep protein such thatthe amount of protein produced is preferably about 2%, more preferablyabout 10% and most preferably about 30% of the total protein of a cellcomprising a construct of the invention that includes a nucleotidesequence encoding the protein of interest, and wherein the cell furthercomprises a Rep protein.

The invention also provides a method for expressing a heterologouspolypeptide in a plant such as a soybean plant. The method can includethe step of inoculating a soybean plant with Bean pod mottle virus(BPMV) RNA1 and recombinant RNA2, wherein the recombinant BPMV RNA2comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding an RNA2 polyprotein openreading frame (ORF), wherein the RNA2 polyprotein ORF comprises a firstand second protease cleavage site such as a FDMV 2A cleavage site afterthe RNA translation stop codon, wherein the nucleic acid sequencesencoding the first and second protease cleavage site differ sufficientlyto reduce homologous recombination between the protease cleavage site,encoding nucleic acid sequences and wherein a nucleic acid sequenceencoding a heterologous polypeptide is inserted between the first andsecond protease cleavage sites. In a particular embodiment, the methodcan be performed with a vector in which the first protease cleavagesites are located after the movement protein (MP) and large coat protein(L-CP) encoded by the RNA2 polyprotein. The recombinant RNA2 can containrestriction sites for inserting the nucleic acid sequence encoding theheterologous polypeptide between or after the first and second proteasecleavage sites. Other BPMV vectors, as disclosed herein, can also beused in a method for expressing a heterologous polypeptide in a plantsuch as soybean. Such a method can be used, for example, to producelarge quantities of a polypeptide of interest. Production of suchheterologous polypeptides can be used to produce large quantities ofproteins at relatively low cost, for example, to produce a therapeuticpolypeptide. A polypeptide can be purified from the plant and used fortherapeutic or other purposes. In addition, expression of a heterologouspolypeptide such as an antigen can provide a plant or plant-derivedproduct containing the antigen, which can provide a potential low costoral vaccine containing an appropriate antigen.

C. Gene Function Studies

Another important application of plant viral vector systems is instudies on host gene function. With more plant genomic informationavailable, a high throughput tool is required. Virus-induced genesilencing (VIGS) is an exceptional reverse genetics tool that can beemployed to generate mutant phenotypes for conveying function to unknowngenes. VIGS has many advantages over other methods, for example, it isquick and does not require plant transformation (Burch-Smith et al.,2004). In VIGS systems, viruses are designed to carry partial sequenceof known or candidate genes in order to link their function to themutant phenotype. Replication of the recombinant virus and generation ofdsRNA intermediates trigger the RNA-mediated host defense system,resulting in degradation of RNA with sequence identity to therecombinant virus including mRNA of the gene of interest. The targets ofVIGS can be a single gene, several members of a gene family, or severaldistinct genes (Lu et al., EMBO J. 22, 5690-5699 (2003a); Peele, et al.,Plant J. 27:357-366 (2001); Turnage, et al., Plant J. 30:107-117(2002)). Many model host plants including N. benthamiana, tomato,tobacco, Arabidopsis, and cassava have been explored (Burch-Smith, etal., Plant J. 39:734-746 (2004)). With the current abundance of genomicinformation on soybean and model legume species (Stacey, et al., PlantPhysiol. 135:59-70 (2004)), it is timely to apply VIGS to soybean toenhance knowledge of gene function in such a major legume crop. Asdisclosed herein, BPMV vectors of the invention can be used as a VIGSvector for studies on gene function in soybean.

The invention additionally provides a method for virus-induced genesilencing in a soybean plant and vectors useful in a method forvirus-induced gene silencing. Such a method can include the step ofinoculating a soybean plant with Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) RNA,wherein the BPMV RNA comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding at leasta portion of a gene endogenous to the soybean plant. For virus-inducedgene silencing, a partial or entire sequence of an endogenous gene canalso be located in the untranslated regions (UTRs) of RNA2, or in RNA1if the sequence is small enough to be accommodated, as discussed above,since it is the expression of the nucleic acid encoding at least aportion of an endogenous gene that results in gene silencing. For avirus-induced gene silencing vector, the insertion in the UTRs can befacilitated by engineering appropriate restriction sites for insertionof the endogenous gene, so long as the inserted endogenous sequence doesnot impair viral RNA replication and a sufficient amount of infectiveBPMV is produced.

As used herein, the term “endogenous,” when used in reference to apolypeptide, nucleic acid or gene, refers to a polypeptide, nucleic acidor gene that is expressed by a host. For example, using a BPMV vector ofthe invention for a method of virus-induced gene silencing, a BPMVvector is engineered to express at least a portion of a gene endogenousto the host plant such as soybean. In such a case, the endogenous geneis already expressed in the host plant.

The results disclosed herein represent the first report to demonstratethat BPMV-based vectors are suitable for VIGS of non-translatable genesequences in soybean. The level of foreign gene expression, asexemplified by the BPMV-GFP vector, was estimated to account for 1% oftotal soluble proteins (see Example III). This level is comparable tothat reported for the PVX-based vectors (Culver, Virology 226:228-235(1996)).

The BPMV-based vector is suitable for use as a VIGS vector to study genefunction in soybean. Soybean is a major oilseed crop and an importantsource of food and feed protein. It is subject to a wide range ofpathogens and VIGS is an ideal reverse genetics tool for soybeanfunctional genomics aimed at understanding host-microbe interactions(Jackson et al., 2006; Stacey et al., 2004). Recently, BPMV VIGS wassuccessfully used for identification of the soybean rust resistance geneRpp4 (Meyer et al., 2009). Three viruses, Apple latent spherical virus(ALSV), Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and BPMV have been developed assoybean functional genomics tools (Igarashi et al., 2009; Nagamatsu etal., 2007; Zhang and Ghabrial 2006). Fusion protein expression was usedfor both ALSV and BPMV gene expression as well as for VIGS studies. Thefusion protein strategy used for the previous BPMV VIGS vectors (Zhangand Ghabrial 2006; Zhang et al., 2009) requires that foreign sequencesbe in translation frame with the RNA2 open reading frame. This designstrategy restricts the vector's usefulness for RNA silencing as itcannot target genes such as short transcription factors and non-codingsequences as well as promoter regions and untranslated regions. Inaddition, it cannot discern if RNA polarity influences the efficiency oftarget gene silencing and there is always a short peptide expressed thatmay confound the interpretation of the silencing result. To overcomethese shortcomings, foreign sequences were inserted after the viral RNA2ORF. The soybean PDS gene was selected for testing this novel strategybecause of the obvious photobleaching phenotype as well as theopportunity to compare with previous results (Igarashi et al., 2009;Nagamatsu et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2009). In our results, senseorientation insertion had minimal effect on PDS silencing. These resultsare consistent with those using ALSV in soybean where the 5′ end PDSsense insertion had little PDS silencing effect (Igarashi et al., 2009).Similar results were also reported in Arabidopsis where sense insertionin TYMV had minimal effect on Arabidopsis GUS and PDS silencing(Pflieger et al., 2008). However, the ALSV report could not test thesilencing effect of RNA polarity due to the fusion protein strategy.Here we found that generally antisense resulted in stronger silencing.Two antisense PDS VIGS constructs, pBPMV-PDS-R3 and pBPMV-PDS-R4,resulted in a 10 fold reduction. This contrasts with the 2.5-3 foldreduction we observed when testing other genes using the senseorientation (Zhang et al., 2009). Similar to the ALSV results, we foundthat the middle to 3′ end PDS gene region resulted in strongersilencing, particularly in the antisense orientation.

It has been reported that gene fragments of 23-80 nt can be sufficientfor VIGS induction (Thomas et al., 2001; Burch-Smith et al., 2004;Pflieger et al., 2008). Since the insert size for the BPMV PDS silencingconstruct in this study is about 300 nt, it is theoretically possible toachieve VIGS of multiple soybean genes. This is important becausesoybean has genetic redundancy and genes function in parallel signalingpathways (Blanc and Wolfe 2004; Lawrence and Pikaard 2003; Schlueter etal., 2004; Shoemaker et al., 1996) making simultaneous testing ofdifferent combinations of genes or homologs desirable (Zhang et al.,2009).

Another amenable feature for multiple gene silencing is that there is nolimit on translation requirement for foreign gene insertion with the newBPMV VIGS vector. Further, the interesting finding that the 3′ PDSantisense insertion gave the best silencing phenotype in soybean makesthe new BPMV VIGS vector applicable for constructing a cDNA VIGS librarybecause a version of the new BPMV VIGS vector was developed so thatdirectional insertion can be achieved.

It will generally be desirable that vectors provided by the invention becapable of systemic spread in an infected plant. However, such asystemic spread may not be essential for efficient gene silencing. Arecombinant vector provided by the invention may or may not thereforeinclude all cis-elements required for vascular movement of the vector oreven its cell-to-cell spread. In this manner, modulation of plant geneexpression in a collection of plant cells may be more efficientlycarried out. Methods for inoculating plants and plant cells withrecombinant viral vectors or viral particles are well known to those ofskill in the art. Such vectors may, for example, be administered in asolution and may also contain any other desired ingredients includingbuffers, cis-elements, surfactants, solvents and similar components.

Vector Construction

Construction of vectors for use with the invention will be well known tothose of skill in light of the current disclosure. Recombinantconstructs preferably comprise restriction endonuclease sites tofacilitate vector construction. Particularly useful are uniquerestriction endonuclease recognition sites. Examples of such restrictionsites include sites for the restriction endonucleases HindIII, Tth 1111,BsmI, KpnI and XhoI. Endonucleases preferentially break the internalphosphodiester bonds of polynucleotide chains. They may be relativelyunspecific, cutting polynucleotide bonds regardless of the surroundingnucleotide sequence. However, the endonucleases which cleave only aspecific nucleotide sequence are called restriction enzymes. Restrictionendonucleases generally internally cleave nucleic acid molecules atspecific recognition sites, making breaks within “recognition” sequencesthat in many, but not all, cases exhibit two-fold symmetry around agiven point. Such enzymes typically create double-stranded breaks.

Many of these enzymes make a staggered cleavage, yielding DNA fragmentswith protruding single-stranded 5′ or 3′ termini. Such ends are said tobe “sticky” or “cohesive” because they will hydrogen bond tocomplementary 3′ or 5′ ends. As a result, the end of any DNA fragmentproduced by an enzyme, such as EcoRI, can anneal with any other fragmentproduced by that enzyme. This properly allows splicing of foreign genesinto plasmids, for example. Some restriction endonucleases that may beparticularly useful with the current invention include HindIII, Tth 1111, BsmI, KpnI and XhoI.

Some endonucleases create fragments that have blunt ends, that is, thatlack any protruding single strands. An alternative way to create bluntends is to use a restriction enzyme that leaves overhangs, but to fillin the overhangs with a polymerase, such as Klenow, thereby resulting inblunt ends. When DNA has been cleaved with restriction enzymes that cutacross both strands at the same position, blunt end ligation can be usedto join the fragments directly together. The advantage of this techniqueis that any pair of ends may be joined together, irrespective ofsequence.

Those nucleases that preferentially break off terminal nucleotides arereferred to as exonucleases. For example, small deletions can beproduced in any DNA molecule by treatment with an exonuclease whichstarts from each 3′ end of the DNA and chews away single strands in a 3′to 5′ direction, creating a population of DNA molecules withsingle-stranded fragments at each end, some containing terminalnucleotides. Similarly, exonucleases that digest DNA from the 5′ end orenzymes that remove nucleotides from both strands have often been used.Some exonucleases which may be particularly useful in the presentinvention include Bal31, S1, and ExoIII. These nucleolytic reactions canbe controlled by varying the time of incubation, the temperature, andthe enzyme concentration needed to make deletions. Phosphatases andkinases also may be used to control which fragments have ends which canbe joined. Examples of useful phosphatases include shrimp alkalinephosphatase and calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase. An example of auseful kinase is T4 polynucleotide kinase.

Once the source DNA sequences and vector sequences have been cleaved andmodified to generate appropriate ends, they are incubated together withenzymes capable of mediating the ligation of the two DNA molecules.Particularly useful enzymes for this purpose include T4 ligase, E. coliligase, or other similar enzymes. The action of these enzymes results inthe sealing of the linear DNA to produce a larger DNA moleculecontaining the desired fragment (see, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos.4,237,224; 4,264,731; 4,273,875; 4,322,499 and 4,336,336, which arespecifically incorporated herein by reference).

It is to be understood that the termini of the linearized plasmid andthe termini of the DNA fragment being inserted must be complementary orblunt in order for the ligation reaction to be successful. Suitablecomplementary ends can be achieved by choosing appropriate restrictionendonucleases (i.e., if the fragment is produced by the same restrictionendonuclease or one that generates the same overhang as that used tolinearize the plasmid, then the termini of both molecules will becomplementary). As discussed previously, in one embodiment of theinvention, at least two classes of the vectors used in the presentinvention are adapted to receive the foreign oligonucleotide fragmentsin only one orientation. After joining the DNA segment to the vector,the resulting hybrid DNA can then be selected from among the largepopulation of clones or libraries.

Once a DNA vector has been prepared, it will be readily understood tothose of skill in the art that infective RNA transcripts may be madetherefrom. For example, commercial kits are available for production ofRNA transcripts. On example of such a kit that was used by the inventorsis the mMeSSAGE mMACHINE transcription kit from Ambion (Austin, Tex.).

In certain embodiments of the invention, techniques may thus be used toassay gene expression and generally, the efficacy of a given genesilencing construct. While this may be carried out by visual observationof a change in plant phenotype, molecular tools may also be used. Forexample, expression may be evaluated by specifically identifying thenucleic acid or protein products of genes. Assays for the production andidentification of specific proteins may make use of physical-chemical,structural, functional, or other properties of the proteins. Uniquephysical-chemical or structural properties allow the proteins to beseparated and identified by electrophoretic procedures, such as nativeor denaturing gel electrophoresis or isoelectric focusing, or bychromatographic techniques such as ion exchange or gel exclusionchromatography. The unique structures of individual proteins offeropportunities for use of specific antibodies to detect their presence informats such as an ELISA assay. Combinations of approaches may beemployed with even greater specificity such as western blotting in whichantibodies are used to locate individual gene products that have beenseparated by electrophoretic techniques. Additional techniques may beemployed to absolutely confirm the identity of the product of interestsuch as evaluation by amino acid sequencing following purification.Although these are among the most commonly employed, other proceduresmay be additionally used.

Very frequently, the expression of a gene product is determined byevaluating the phenotypic results of its expression. These assays alsomay take many forms including but not limited to, analyzing changes inthe chemical composition, morphology, or physiological properties of theplant. Chemical composition may be altered by expression of genesencoding enzymes or storage proteins which change amino acid compositionand may be detected by amino acid analysis, or by enzymes which changestarch quantity which may be analyzed by near infrared reflectancespectrometry. Morphological changes may be observed, such as plantstature or growth.

Production and Characterization Of Stably Transformed Plants

After effecting delivery of exogenous DNA to recipient cells, the nextsteps generally concern identifying the transformed cells for furtherculturing and plant regeneration. In order to improve the ability toidentify transformants, one may desire to employ a selectable orscreenable marker gene with a transformation vector prepared inaccordance with the invention. In this case, one would then generallyassay the potentially transformed cell population by exposing the cellsto a selective agent or agents, or one would screen the cells for thedesired marker gene trait.

Selection

It is believed that DNA is introduced into only a small percentage oftarget cells in any one study. In order to provide an efficient systemfor identification of those cells receiving DNA and integrating it intotheir genomes one may employ a means for selecting those cells that arestably transformed. One exemplary embodiment of such a method is tointroduce into the host cell, a marker gene which confers resistance tosome normally inhibitory agent, such as an antibiotic or herbicide.Examples of antibiotics which may be used include the aminoglycosideantibiotics neomycin, kanamycin and paromomycin, or the antibiotichygromycin. Resistance to the aminoglycoside antibiotics is conferred byaminoglycoside phosphotransferase enzymes such as neomycinphosphotransferase II (NPT II) or NPT I, whereas resistance tohygromycin is conferred by hygromycin phosphotransferase.

Potentially transformed cells then are exposed to the selective agent.In the population of surviving cells will be those cells where,generally, the resistance-conferring gene has been integrated andexpressed at sufficient levels to permit cell survival. Cells may betested further to confirm stable integration of the exogenous DNA.

One herbicide which constitutes a desirable selection agent is the broadspectrum herbicide bialaphos. Bialaphos is a tripeptide antibioticproduced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus and is composed ofphosphinothricin (PPT), an analogue of L-glutamic acid, and twoL-alanine residues. Upon removal of the L-alanine residues byintracellular peptidases, the PPT is released and is a potent inhibitorof glutamine synthetase (GS), a pivotal enzyme involved in ammoniaassimilation and nitrogen metabolism (Ogawa et al., 1973). SyntheticPPT, the active ingredient in the herbicide Liberty™ also is effectiveas a selection agent. Inhibition of GS in plants by PPT causes the rapidaccumulation of ammonia and death of the plant cells.

The organism producing bialaphos and other species of the genusStreptomyces also synthesizes an enzyme phosphinothricin acetyltransferase (PAT) which is encoded by the bar gene in Streptomyceshygroscopicus and the pat gene in Streptomyces viridochromogenes. Theuse of the herbicide resistance gene encoding phosphinothricin acetyltransferase (PAT) is referred to in DE 3642 829 A, wherein the gene isisolated from Streptomyces viridochromogenes.

Another example of a herbicide which is useful for selection oftransformed cell lines in the practice of the invention is the broadspectrum herbicide glyphosate. Glyphosate inhibits the action of theenzyme EPSPS which is active in the aromatic amino acid biosyntheticpathway. Inhibition of this enzyme leads to starvation for the aminoacids phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan and secondary metabolitesderived thereof. U.S. Pat. No. 4,535,060 describes the isolation ofEPSPS mutations which confer glyphosate resistance on polypeptidesencoded by the Salmonella typhimurium gene for EPSPS, aroA. The EPSPSgene was cloned from Zea mays and mutations similar to those found in aglyphosate resistant aroA gene were introduced in vitro. Mutant genesencoding glyphosate resistant EPSPS enzymes are described in, forexample, International Patent WO 97/4103. The best characterized mutantEPSPS gene conferring glyphosate resistance comprises amino acid changesat residues 102 and 106, although it is anticipated that other mutationswill also be useful (PCT/W097/4103).

To use a bar-bialaphos or the EPSPS-glyphosate selective system, forexample, transformed tissue can be cultured for 0-28 days onnonselective medium and subsequently transferred to medium containingfrom 1-3 mg/l bialaphos or 1-3 mM glyphosate as appropriate. Whileranges of 1-3 mg/l bialaphos or 1-3 mM glyphosate may be preferred, itis proposed that ranges of 0.1-50 mg/l bialaphos or 0.1-50 mM glyphosatewill find utility.

Regeneration and Seed Production

Cells that survive the exposure to the selective agent, or cells thathave been scored positive in a screening assay, may be cultured in mediathat supports regeneration of plants. In an exemplary embodiment, MS andN6 media may be modified by including further substances such as growthregulators. One such growth regulator is dicamba or 2,4-D. However,other growth regulators may be employed, including NAA, NAA+2,4-D orpicloram. Media improvement in these and like ways has been found tofacilitate the growth of cells at specific developmental stages. Tissuemay be maintained on a basic media with growth regulators untilsufficient tissue is available to begin plant regeneration efforts, orfollowing repeated rounds of manual selection, until the morphology ofthe tissue is suitable for regeneration, at least 2 wk, then transferredto media conducive to maturation of embryoids. Cultures are transferredevery 2 wk on this medium. Shoot development will signal the time totransfer to medium lacking growth regulators.

The transformed cells, identified by selection or screening and culturedin an appropriate medium that supports regeneration, will then beallowed to mature into plants. Developing plantlets are transferred tosoiless plant growth mix, and hardened, e.g., in an environmentallycontrolled chamber, for example, at about 85% relative humidity, 600 ppmCO₂, and 25-250 microeinsteins m⁻²s⁻¹ of light. Plants may be matured ina growth chamber or greenhouse. Plants can be regenerated from about 6wk to 10 months after a transformant is identified, depending on theinitial tissue. During regeneration, cells are grown on solid media intissue culture vessels. Illustrative embodiments of such vessels arepetri dishes and Plant Cons. Regenerating plants can be grown at about19 to 28° C. After the regenerating plants have reached the stage ofshoot and root development, they may be transferred to a greenhouse forfurther growth and testing.

Seeds on transformed plants may occasionally require embryo rescue dueto cessation of seed development and premature senescence of plants. Torescue developing embryos, they are excised from surface-disinfectedseeds 10-20 days post-pollination and cultured. An embodiment of mediaused for culture at this stage comprises MS salts, 2% sucrose, and 5.5μl agarose. In embryo rescue, large embryos (defined as greater than 3mm in length) are germinated directly on an appropriate media. Embryossmaller than that may be cultured for 1 wk on media containing the aboveingredients along with 10^(−5M) abscisic acid and then transferred togrowth regulator-free medium for germination.

Characterization

To confirm the presence of the exogenous DNA or “transgene(s)” in theregenerating plants, a variety of assays may be performed. Such assaysinclude, for example, “molecular biological” assays, such as Southernand Northern blotting and PCR™; “biochemical” assays, such as detectingthe presence of a protein product, e.g., by immunological means (ELISAsand Western blots) or by enzymatic function; plant part assays, such asleaf or root assays; and also, by analyzing the phenotype of the wholeregenerated plant.

DNA Integration, RNA Expression and Inheritance

Genomic DNA may be isolated from cell lines or any plant parts todetermine the presence of the exogenous gene through the use oftechniques well known to those skilled in the art. Note, that intactsequences will not always be present, presumably due to rearrangement ordeletion of sequences in the cell. The presence of DNA elementsintroduced through the methods of this invention may be determined, forexample, by polymerase chain reaction (PCR™). Using this technique,discrete fragments of DNA are amplified and detected by gelelectrophoresis. This type of analysis permits one to determine whethera gene is present in a stable transformant, but does not proveintegration of the introduced gene into the host cell genome. It istypically the case, however, that DNA has been integrated into thegenome of all transformants that demonstrate the presence of the genethrough PCR™ analysis. In addition, it is not typically possible usingPCR™ techniques to determine whether transformants have exogenous genesintroduced into different sites in the genome, i.e., whethertransformants are of independent origin. It is contemplated that usingPCR™ techniques it would be possible to clone fragments of the hostgenomic DNA adjacent to an introduced gene.

Positive proof of DNA integration into the host genome and theindependent identities of transformants may be determined using thetechnique of Southern hybridization. Using this technique specific DNAsequences that were introduced into the host genome and flanking hostDNA sequences can be identified. Hence the Southern hybridizationpattern of a given transformant serves as an identifying characteristicof that transformant. In addition it is possible through Southernhybridization to demonstrate the presence of introduced genes in highmolecular weight DNA, i.e., confirm that the introduced gene has beenintegrated into the host cell genome. The technique of Southernhybridization provides information that is obtained using PCR™, e.g.,the presence of a gene, but also demonstrates integration into thegenome and characterizes each individual transformant.

It is contemplated that using the techniques of dot or slot blothybridization which are modifications of Southern hybridizationtechniques one could obtain the same information that is derived fromPCR™, e.g., the presence of a gene.

Both PCR™ and Southern hybridization techniques can be used todemonstrate transmission of a transgene to progeny. In most instancesthe characteristic Southern hybridization pattern for a giventransformant will segregate in progeny as one or more Mendelian genes(Spencer et al., 1992) indicating stable inheritance of the transgene.

Whereas DNA analysis techniques may be conducted using DNA isolated fromany part of a plant, RNA will only be expressed in particular cells ortissue types and hence it will be necessary to prepare RNA for analysisfrom these tissues. PCR™ techniques also may be used for detection andquantitation of RNA produced from introduced genes. In this applicationof PCR™ it is first necessary to reverse transcribe RNA into DNA, usingenzymes such as reverse transcriptase, and then through the use ofconventional PCR™ techniques amplify the DNA. In most instances PCR™techniques, while useful, will not demonstrate integrity of the RNAproduct. Further information about the nature of the RNA product may beobtained by Northern blotting. This technique will demonstrate thepresence of an RNA species and give information about the integrity ofthat RNA. The presence or absence of an RNA species also can bedetermined using dot or slot blot Northern hybridizations. Thesetechniques are modifications of Northern blotting and will onlydemonstrate the presence or absence of an RNA species.

Gene Expression

While Southern blotting and PCR™ may be used to detect the gene(s) inquestion, they do not provide information as to whether thecorresponding protein is being expressed. Expression may be evaluated byspecifically identifying the protein products of the introduced genes orevaluating the phenotypic changes brought about by their expression.

Assays for the production and identification of specific proteins maymake use of physical-chemical, structural, functional, or otherproperties of the proteins. Unique physical-chemical or structuralproperties allow the proteins to be separated and identified byelectrophoretic procedures, such as native or denaturing gelelectrophoresis or isoelectric focusing, or by chromatographictechniques such as ion exchange or gel exclusion chromatography. Theunique structures of individual proteins offer opportunities for use ofspecific antibodies to detect their presence in formats such as an ELISAassay. Combinations of approaches may be employed with even greaterspecificity such as western blotting in which antibodies are used tolocate individual gene products that have been separated byelectrophoretic techniques. Additional techniques may be employed toabsolutely confirm the identity of the product of interest such asevaluation by amino acid sequencing following purification. Althoughthese are among the most commonly employed, other procedures may beadditionally used.

Very frequently the expression of a gene product is determined byevaluating the phenotypic results of its expression. These assays alsomay take many forms including but not limited to analyzing changes inthe chemical composition, morphology, or physiological properties of theplant. Chemical composition may be altered by expression of genesencoding enzymes or storage proteins which change amino acid compositionand may be detected by amino acid analysis, or by enzymes which changestarch quantity which may be analyzed by near infrared reflectancespectrometry. Morphological changes may include greater stature orthicker stalks. Most often changes in response of plants or plant partsto imposed treatments are evaluated under carefully controlledconditions termed bioassays.

Breeding Plants

In addition to direct transformation of a particular plant genotype witha construct prepared according to the current invention, transgenicplants may be made by crossing a plant having a selected DNA of theinvention to a second plant lacking the construct. For example, aselected polypeptide coding sequence can be introduced into a particularplant variety by crossing, without the need for ever directlytransforming a plant of that given variety. Therefore, the currentinvention not only encompasses a plant directly transformed orregenerated from cells which have been transformed in accordance withthe current invention, but also the progeny of such plants. As usedherein the term “progeny” denotes the offspring of any generation of aparent plant prepared in accordance with the instant invention, whereinthe progeny comprises a selected DNA construct prepared in accordancewith the invention. “Crossing” a plant to provide a plant line havingone or more added transgenes relative to a starting plant line, asdisclosed herein, is defined as the techniques that result in atransgene of the invention being introduced into a plant line bycrossing a starting line with a donor plant line that comprises atransgene of the invention. To achieve this one could, for example,perform the following steps:

(a) plant seeds of the first (starting line) and second (donor plantline that comprises a transgene of the invention) parent plants;

(b) grow the seeds of the first and second parent plants into plantsthat bear flowers;

(c) pollinate a flower from the first parent plant with pollen from thesecond parent plant; and

(d) harvest seeds produced on the parent plant bearing the fertilizedflower.

Backcrossing is herein defined as the process including the steps of:

(a) crossing a plant of a first genotype containing a desired gene, DNAsequence or element to a plant of a second genotype lacking the desiredgene, DNA sequence or element;

(b) selecting one or more progeny plant containing the desired gene, DNAsequence or element;

(c) crossing the progeny plant to a plant of the second genotype; and

(d) repeating steps (b) and (c) for the purpose of transferring adesired DNA sequence from a plant of a first genotype to a plant of asecond genotype.

Introgression of a DNA element into a plant genotype is defined as theresult of the process of backcross conversion. A plant genotype intowhich a DNA sequence has been introgressed may be referred to as abackcross converted genotype, line, inbred, or hybrid. Similarly a plantgenotype lacking the desired DNA sequence may be referred to as anunconverted genotype, line, inbred, or hybrid.

Although exemplified herein with soybean, it is understood that a BPMVvector of the inventions can be used in other suitable host plantorganisms that support the propagation of BPMV. For example, othercultivars of bean and leguminous weeds are also known to be hosts forBPMV (Geisler et al., Plant Dis. 86:1280-1289 (2002)). Therefore, thevectors of the invention can be used in methods in other suitable hostplants as with soybean.

It is understood that modifications which do not substantially affectthe activity the various embodiments of this invention are also providedwithin the definition of the invention provided herein. Accordingly, thefollowing examples are intended to illustrate but not limit the presentinvention.

Deposit

A representative deposit of a BPMV IA-V2 (pBPMV-IA-V2) and pBPMV R1B(pBPMV-IA-R1M) has been maintained by Iowa State University PlantPathology Department, Ames, Iowa 50011 since prior to the filing date ofthis application. Access to this deposit will be available during thependency of the application to the Commissioner of Patents andTrademarks and persons determined by the Commissioner to be entitledthereto upon request. Upon allowance of any claims in the application,the Applicant will make available to the public without restriction adeposit with the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Rockville,Md., 20852. Additionally, Applicant will meet all the requirements of 37C.F.R. §1.801-1.809, including providing an indication of the viabilityof the samples when the deposit is made. This deposit will be maintainedin the ATCC Depository, which is a public depository, for a period of 30years, or 5 years after the most recent request, or for the enforceablelife of the patent, whichever is longer, and will be replaced if it everbecomes nonviable during that period. Applicant will impose norestrictions on the availability of the deposited material from theATCC; however, Applicant has no authority to waive any restrictionsimposed by law on the transfer of biological material or itstransportation in commerce.

The foregoing invention has been described in detail by way ofillustration and example for purposes of clarity and understanding.However, it will be obvious that certain changes and modifications suchas single gene modifications and mutations, somoclonal variants, variantindividuals selected from large populations of the plants of the instantvariety and the like may be practiced within the scope of the invention,as limited only by the scope of the appended claims.

Example I

Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV, genus Comovirus) has a bipartite positiveRNA genome consisting of RNA1 (≈6 kb) and RNA2 (≈3.6 kb). Both BPMV RNA1and RNA2 are expressed as a single polyprotein precursor and subsequentproteolysis to yield mature viral gene products. Based on the fusionprotein expression strategy, Zhang and Ghabrial (2006) reported thefirst generation BPMV foreign gene expression and VIGS vector forfunctional genomics of soybean. However, the RNA-based first generationBPMV plant viral vector is not amenable for efficient use because of therequirement for in vitro RNA transcription and RNA inoculation.Recently, a more efficient DNA-based BPMV VIGS vector was reported thatis an effective and efficient functional genomics tool applicable forhigh throughput large-scale functional genomics experiments in soybean(Zhang et al., 2009).

To further enhance the potential of BPMV as a viral vector forfunctional genomics, we describe here a BPMV vector that employs a noveldesign for foreign gene expression. With the new design, two foreigngenes can be inserted into the BPMV genomic RNA2 for simultaneoussystemic expression in plants. This makes in vivo protein-protein studyfeasible in soybean. The previously reported BPMV VIGS vectors are basedon insertion of a gene fragment between the movement protein and largecoat protein of BPMV. That design requires the foreign sequences to bein frame with the BPMV RNA2 open reading frame. Because of thetranslation requirement, primer design, particularly for high throughputapplications, is laborious with the previous vector. In addition,potential interference of the translated peptide from the foreignsequence may result in unanticipated phenotypes. To overcome theseinconveniences, we insert VIGS foreign gene fragments after the BPMVRNA2 translation stop codon to avoid the requirement of in frame readingof the foreign sequences. The new BPMV VIGS vector design also allowsinsertion of non-coding sequences into the BPMV VIGS vector forfunctional analysis. This novel design provides the potential that theBPMV VIGS vector can be used for applications such as cDNA libraryscreening, promoter silencing, and silencing of un-translated regions ofmessenger RNAs. Further, RNA silencing and foreign gene expression canbe achieved in a single BPMV viral construct making marker gene assistedsilencing possible. The new BPMV vector was developed in a mannersimilar to the previously reported DNA-based BPMV vector in that theviral genome is under control of the CaMV 35S promoter and Nosterminator to overcome the disadvantage of an inefficient RNA-basedvector.

Materials And Methods Virus Strains, Inoculation, and BPMV VirusDetection

The BPMV isolate, I-Di1, was isolated in Iowa in 2006 (Bradshaw et al.,2007) and maintained in the soybean cultivar Williams (Zhang et al.,2009), which was used in all experiments in this study. Mechanicalinoculation of plants dusted with 600-mesh Carborundum was done by using50 mM potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0. All seeds used in the studywere harvested from greenhouse grown plants previously indexed for theabsence of BPMV and SMV. BPMV viral infection was verified by DAS-ELISA(Bradshaw et al., 2007).

DNA-based BPMV constructs were biolistically introduced into the primaryleaves following methods described by Zhang et al. (2009). Followingbombardment, plants were maintained in the greenhouse or growth chamberat 20° C. with a photoperiod of 16 hours.

Infectious BPMV I-Di1 RNA1 and RNA2 Constructs

Unless otherwise stated, all plasmids were propagated in ElectroMaxDH5α-E cells (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif., USA) and purified using theQiaPrep Spin MiniPrep kit (Qiagen, Valencia, Calif., USA). All PCR wasperformed using Takara PrimeSTAR™ HS DNA Polymerase (TaKaRa Bio Inc.,Otsu, Shiga, Japan). Nucleotide sequencing was done using the Big DyeTerminator DNA Sequencing Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.,USA) and the ABI Prism 310 genetic analyzer. Sequence analysis wasperformed using the Vector NTI program (Invitrogen).

The fragment containing transcription elements from pBR322-35S (Wang etal., 2006) was released by digestion with EcoRI and Nod and ligated intosimilarly digested pGEM 1lzf(+) vector (Promega Corporation, Madison,Wis., USA) to generate the pGEM-35S vector. pGEM-35S was digested withMscI and EcoRI, Klenow treated, and self ligated to remove MscI from thepGEM 1lzf (+) vector backbone. The resultant vector was namedpGEM-35S-M1.

Total RNA was extracted from BPMV-infected soybean leaves by the Trizolmethod (Invitrogen). First-strand cDNA was synthesized using 0.5 μg ofmRNA, 0.5 μg oligo(dT)₂₀ primer, 1 μl 10 mM dNTP, and Superscript IIIreverse transcriptase (Invitrogen) to a final volume of 20 μl. A 2-μlaliquot of first-strand cDNA reverse transcription product was used astemplate in a 100 μl PCR reaction for amplification of full length RNA1with primer pair BPMV-5end-F and BP-R1-3Cla. The PCR conditions were 1,one minute of denaturing at 98° C. followed by three cycles ofdenaturing at 98° C. for 10 seconds, annealing at 40° C. for 12 secondsand extending at 68° C. for 6 and half minutes; 2, thirty cycles ofdenaturing at 98° C. for 10 seconds, annealing at 52° C. for 12 secondsand extending at 68° C. for 6 and half minutes; 3, extra 10 minutes ofextending at 68° C. The 6 kb PCR product was gel extracted, treated withT4 DNA kinase and ligated into StuI digested and dephosphorylatedpGEM-35S-M1 vector to generate construct pBPMV-R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1). Cloneswere screened by PCR with primer pair BP-R1-5708F and Nos-Rev forcorrect insertion direction. Insertion orientation of pBPMV-R1A(pBPMV-IA-R1) was further confirmed by sequencing with primer 35-Seq(Table I) and the entire genomic BPMV RNA1 insertions were sequencedwith primers for RNA1 listed in Table I.

Following the same procedure as described for RNA1, the full length BPMVRNA2 was amplified from the above cDNA template using the primer pairBP-5endF and R2-3Cla (Table I). The 3.6 kb PCR product was gelextracted, treated with T4 DNA kinase and ligated into StuI digestedpGEM-35S-M1 to generate construct pBPMV-R2. Clones were screened by PCRwith primer pair R2-3303F and Nos-Rev for correct insertion direction(Table I). Clone pBPMV-R2 was fully sequenced with primers for RNA2listed in Table I.

Modification of BPMV RNA1 to Provide a Vector with Moderate Symptoms

pBPMV-R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1) was selected using overlapping PCR for furtherBPMV RNA1 modification. The first PCR reaction was performed withpBPMV-R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1) as template and primer pair R1-235F andR1-Modi-R. The second PCR reaction was performed with pBPMV-R1A(pBPMV-IA-R1) as template and primer pair R1-Modi-F and R1-3344R. Thethird PCR reaction was performed using PCR products of the previous tworeactions as template and primer pair R1-235F and R1-Modi-R. Products ofthe third PCR reaction were digested with SwaI and MscI and ligated intosimilarly treated pBPMV-R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1) to yield pBPMV-R1B(pBPMV-IA-R1M) (FIG. 2). Insertion orientation was confirmed by PCR withprimer pair R1-235F and R1-2245R. pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) was sequencedusing primers listed in Table I (See also FIGS. 8-10 for sequence data).

BPMV RNA2 Vector Construction and Modification

BPMV RNA2 was selected for foreign gene insertion. The same reagentswere used in BPMV vector modification as were used for generatinginfectious BPMV RNA1 and RNA2 clones. All PCR was performed with primerslisted in Table I and Table II.

A set of overlapping PCR reactions was used to introduce the BamHIrestriction site after the stop codon of BPMV RNA2 polyprotein codingsequence. PCR reaction A was performed with pBPMV-R2 as template andprimer pair R2-2133F and R2-Rev 1. PCR reaction B was performed usingpBPMV-R2 as template and overlapping primer pair R2-For1 and Nos-Rev.PCR reaction C was performed with PCR products of A and B as templateand primer pair R2-2133F and Nos-Rev. The product of PCR reaction C wasdigested with BsrGI and ClaI and ligated into similarly digestedpBPMV-R2 to yield pBPMV-V1 (pBPMV-IA-V1; FIG. 1B). Self annealing primerpair R2-For2 and R2-Rev2 was used for PCR without template and the PCRproduct was digested with BglII and BamHI. The digested PCR product wasgel purified and ligated to BamHI digested and dephosphorylated pBPMV-V1(pBPMV-IA-V1). Insertion orientation was confirmed by PCR with R2-For2and Nos-Rev and the clone is designated as pBPMV-V2 (pBPMV-IA-V2; FIG.1B, FIG. 4).

A set of overlapping PCR reactions was used to introduce the FMDV 2Aproteinase sequence after the small coat protein subunit gene forforeign gene expression. PCR reaction D was performed with pBPMV-R2 astemplate and primer pair R2-For3 and Nos-Rev. PCR reaction E wasperformed with overlapping primer pair R2-For4 and R2-Rev3. PCR reactionF was performed with pBPMV-R2 as template and primer pair R2-2133F andR2-Rev4. PCR reaction G was performed with PCR products of D and E astemplate and primer pair R2-For4 and Nos-Rev. PCR reaction H wasperformed with PCR products of F and G as template and primer pairR2-2133F and Nos-Rev. The product of PCR reaction H was digested withBsrGI and ClaI and ligated into similarly digested pBPMV-R2 to yieldpBPMV-M1 (FIG. 1B). A FMDV 2A proteinase site was introduced between themovement and large coat protein genes using a similar overlapping PCRmethod. PCR reaction I was performed with pBPMV-M1 as template andprimer pair R2-1548F and R2-Rev5. PCR reaction J was performed withpBPMV-M1 as template and primer pair R2-For5 and R2-2688R. PCR reactionK was performed with PCR products of I and J as template and primer pairR2-1548F and 8P-R2-2688R. The product of PCR reaction K was digestedwith XbaI and BsrGI and ligated into similarly digested pBPMV-R2 toyield pBPMV-V3 (pBPMV-IA-V3; FIG. 1B, FIG. 4). The product of PCRreaction K was digested with XbaI and BsrGI and ligated into similarlydigested pBPMV-V1 (pBPMV-IA-V1) to yield pBPMV-V4 (pBPMV-IA-V4; FIG. 1B,FIG. 5).

CaMV 35S Promoter Driven BPMV Viral Gene Expression and VIGS Constructs

SMV-N-GFP (Wang et al., 2006) was used as template with primer pairGFP-BamF and GFP-BamR for a PCR reaction. The PCR product was digestedwith BamHI and inserted into BamHI digested and dephosphorylatedpBPMV-M1 (pBPMV-IA-M1) to yield construct pBPMV-M1-GFP. Insertionorientation was confirmed by sequencing with primer R2-3303F (Table I).pBPMV-M1-GFP was used as template with primer pairs GFP-Xho and GFP-Smafor PCR. The products were digested with XhoI and SmaI and inserted intosimilarly treated pBPMV-V3 (pBPMV-IA-V3) to create constructs pBPMV-GFP1for GFP expression. The digested full GFP gene PCR product was also putinto XhoI and SmaI digested pBPMV-V4 (pBPMV-IA-V4) to create pBPMV-GFP2for GFP expression with insertion site for silencing. TBSV P19 gene wasamplified from plasmid PZP-TBSVp19 (Qu et al., 2003) using primer pairTBSV-P19-Xho and TBSV-P19-Sma (Table II) and the PCR product wasdigested with XhoI and SmaI and inserted into similarly digestedpBPMV-V4 (pBPMV-IA-V4) to create pBPMV-P19 for TBSV P19 gene expressionwith insertion site for silencing. Herbicide resistance BAR gene wasamplified from plasmid pCB302 (Xiang et al., 1999) using primer pairBAR-Xho and BAR-Sma (Table II) and the PCR product was digested withXhoI and SmaI and inserted into similarly digested pBPMV-V4(pBPMV-IA-V4) to create pBPMV-BAR for BAR gene expression with insertionsite for silencing.

For the second FMDV-2A insertion into the BPMV RNA2 for two geneexpression, overlapping PCR was used to generate double gene expression.PCR reaction L was performed using pBPMV-M1-GFP as template with primerpair GFP-modi-1F and GFP-modi-1R. PCR reaction M was performed usingpBPMV-M1 as template with primer pair GFP-modi-2F and GFP-modi-2R.Overlapping PCR reaction N was performed using PCR products L and M astemplate with primer pair GFP-modi-1F and GFP-modi-2R. The product ofPCR reaction N was digested with XhoI and SalI and inserted into XhoIdigested pBPMV-BAR to create pBPMV-GFP-BAR. Insertion orientation wasconfirmed by sequencing with primer R2-1548F. The constructpBPMV-GFP-BAR has the features illustrated for pBPMV-V5 (FIG. 1B;pBPMV-IA-V5; FIG. 6).

Total RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis followed the previouslydescribed method for generating infectious BPMV clones. The cDNA wasused for PCR with primers described below to amplify correspondingsoybean PDS gene fragments (FIG. 11A) and the PCR products were digestedwith BamHI and inserted into similarly digested and dephosphorylatedpBPMV-V1 (pBPMV-IA-V1) to generate the PDS VIGS constructs. The primersGm-PDS-pF1 and Gm-PDS-pR1 were used for generating VIGS constructspBPMV-PDS-F1 (sense insertion) and pBPMV-PDS-R1 (antisense insertion).The primers Gm-PDS-pF2 and Gm-PDS-pR2 were used for generating VIGSconstructs pBPMV-PDS-F2 (sense insertion) and pBPMV-PDS-R2 (antisenseinsertion). The primers Gm-PDS-pF3 and Gm-PDS-pR3 were used forgenerating VIGS constructs pBPMV-PDS-F3 (sense insertion) andpBPMV-PDS-R3 (antisense insertion). The primers Gm-PDS-pF4 andGm-PDS-pR4 were used for generating VIGS constructs pBPMV-PDS-F4 (senseinsertion) and pBPMV-PDS-R4 (antisense insertion). The primersGm-PDS-pF1130 and Gm-PDS-pR1520 were used for generating pBPMV-PDS-5which was used as template for PDS gene probe preparation. All PDS genefragment insertions were confirmed by sequencing with primer R2-3303F.The PDS gene fragment insert in construct pBPMV-PDS-R4 was released byBamHI digestion and inserted into BamHI digested and dephosphorylatedconstructs pBPMV-BAR and pBPMV-P19 to yield pBPMV-BAR-PDS andpBPMV-P19-PDS. Insertion orientation was confirmed by sequencing withprimer R2-3303F.

RNA Extraction and Northern Hybridization Analysis

Total RNA extraction and reverse transcription were done followingmethods described by Zhang et al. (2009). For Northern hybridizationanalysis, following RNA extraction, hybridization was performedaccording to the description by Zhang and Ghabrial (2006). The probe forPDS was prepared by PCR with primer pair Gm-PDS-F5 and Gm-PDS-R5 usingpBPMV-PDS-5 as template. Probes were labeled using Prime-a-Gene labelingsystem (Promega). Northern blot was assessed using ImageQuant v5.2(Amersham, Piscataway, N.J., U.S.A.).

Herbicide Treatment and GFP Imaging

The fully expanded primary leaves of soybean seedlings were inoculatedwith the BPMV viral gene expression or VIGS constructs. Four weekslater, the infected soybean plants were sprayed with the herbicideLiberty, which contains glufosinate-ammonium (GA) as the activeingredient (Aventis CropScience, Research Triangle PK, NC, USA), at aconcentration of 0.05% GA (w/v) in deionized water. The soybean plantswere photographed 3 weeks after herbicide treatment. Foliar GFPexpression was examined by visualizing with UV illumination (100-WBlak-Ray longwave UV lamp; UVP, Upland, Calif., USA) and photographswere taken using a Nikon D70 digital camera fitted with a yellow filter.For root GFP observation, four weeks after inoculation, soybean rootsfrom each construct were rinsed and photographed using a Zeiss StemiSV11 stereoscope (Zeiss, Jena, Germany). GFP expression was monitoredwith a Piston GFP filter set (Chroma, Rockingham, Vt.). Pictures weretaken with a Zeiss Axiocam MRc5 digital camera and processed with ZeissAxiovision software (Zeiss, Jena, Germany).

Results Construction of CaMV 35S Promoter Driven BPMV Vectors

The previously developed RNA-based BPMV vector requires in vitro RNAtranscription and mechanical inoculation of RNA (Zhang and Ghabrial,2006). Increased throughput can be achieved by placing the cDNAs of BPMVgenomic RNA1 and RNA2 under control of the CaMV 35S promoter and Nosterminator (Zhang et al., 2009) to circumvent the need for making invitro RNA transcripts (FIG. 1). The newly developed BPMV viral vectordescribed here was directly introduced into soybean plants by biolisticinoculation with efficiency greater than 80%. The BPMV isolate I-Di1used for development of the new vector induced mild symptoms on threedifferent soybean cultivars (Williams, Clark and Essex, data not shown).This feature makes this isolate suitable as a VIGS vector withoutinterference from a severe viral phenotype.

After biolistic inoculation, the wild type infectious clones pBPMV-R1A(pBPMV-IA-R1) with pBPMV-R2 produced mild symptoms on the cultivarWilliams (FIG. 7B). The mild infection was confirmed by mechanicalinoculation to a new set of soybean seedlings and infection wasconfirmed by ELISA. Previously, the helicase gene on BPMV RNA1 was shownto be a pathogenicity factor (Gu and Ghabrial, 2005). They furthersuggested that amino acid position 359 of the helicase maybe criticalfor severe symptoms induced by severe strain K-Ho1. As a result of aminoacid sequence comparison of the C-terminal region of the helicase gene,two amino acids (position 359 and 365) of I-Di1 RNA1 were mutated tothat of the severe RNA1 of BPMV strain K-Ho1 (FIG. 7A (see FIGS. 8-11for comparison of RNA1 amino acid and nucleotide sequences). Unlike thewild type RNA1 clone pBPMV-R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1), the mutant pBPMV-R1B(pBPMV-IA-R1M), upon inoculation with wild type RNA2 clone pBPMV-R2produced obvious moderate symptoms on the soybean cultivar Williams(FIG. 7B). The moderate infection phenotype of pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M)was confirmed by mechanical inoculation to a new set of soybeanseedlings and followed by ELISA. Interestingly, the enhanced symptomsare not as severe as that of the severe strain K-Ho1 RNA1. Because theinfection by pBPMV-R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1) only induced very mild visualsymptoms that are almost indistinguishable from the uninfected mockcontrol, it is necessary to confirm the positive infection by ELISA.However, infection by pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) is evident by themoderate visual symptoms. Thus, the ELISA confirmation step is notnecessary and the vector is convenient for high throughput applicationsused in the following studies.

BPMV RNA2 Vector Modification for VIGS Study of Soybean PDS Gene

A series of modifications were used to evaluate different designs ofBPMV viral vectors for foreign gene expression and VIGS studies (FIG.1B). First, a BamHI restriction site was introduced after the stop codonof RNA2 open reading frame to insert the target gene fragment forsilencing (pBPMV-V1, FIG. 1B) (pBPMV-IA-V1). This strategy ofengineering BPMV as a VIGS vector was tested by silencing the soybeanPDS gene (FIG. 11). Further, to facilitate directional insertion, amultiple cloning site was introduced into the BamHI site to generate theVIGS vector pBPMV-V2 (pBPMV-IA-V2; FIG. 1B, FIG. 4).

The previous VIGS vector design (Zhang and Ghabrial, 2006) applied afusion protein expression strategy that requires the foreign sequencesto be in translation frame with the RNA2 open reading frame. Thisconstraint limits the vector's usefulness for RNA silencing of genessuch as those with short open reading frames as well as non-codingsequences such as promoter regions and untranslated regions. Theinsertion orientation of foreign gene inserts in the VIGS vector mightinfluence the efficiency of silencing. For example, antisense mRNAsalways have multiple stop codons but cannot be tested by the fusionprotein strategy previously used for BPMV VIGS. Another disadvantage ofthe fusion strategy is there is always a short peptide expressed thatcould potentially confound the interpretation of the silencing result.To circumvent these issues in the new vector, we tested the possibilityof inserting foreign sequences for silencing after the stop codon of theBPMV RNA2 open reading frame (FIG. 1; FIG. 11). Four sets of primerswere designed to amply four different regions of soybean PDS, 5′ UTR, 5′ORF, 3′ ORF and 3′ UTR. Because we inserted each of the four regionsinto the pBPMV-V1 (pBPMV-IA-V1) BamHI site, we could select clones witheither sense or antisense orientation to test whether insert orientationaffected the efficiency of PDS gene silencing. In three repeatedexperiments, we found that antisense insertion of the 3′ ORF providedthe best silencing (pBPMV-PDS-R3, FIG. 11B). The third and fourthtrifoliolates of soybean plants infected by pBPMV-PDS-R3 were almosttotally bleached while the same sequence inserted in the senseorientation only induced mosaic bleaching. In a comparison between 5′ORF and 3′ ORF, the 3′ end insertion was better for PDS VIGS inantisense orientation. This positional effect was more evident in theantisense than in the sense orientation. While the antisense 3′ UTR gavemosaic type bleaching, the sense insertion of the 3′ UTR of PDS geneshowed little photobleaching. It is interesting that the 5′ UTR ineither sense or antisense insertion did not show photobleaching underthe same conditions (FIG. 11B).

Northern blot analysis was used to evaluate PDS gene mRNA levels insoybean plants infected by the PDS VIGS constructs. Total RNA wasextracted from the third and fourth trifoliolates at three weeks postinoculation. Twenty five μg of total RNAs were loaded for each treatmentand equal loading was confirmed by ethidium bromide staining (FIG. 12A).Initially, to examine the accumulation of BPMV RNA2 transcripts, apartial sequence of I-Di1 RNA2 was PCR amplified with primer pairR2-1548F and R2-2688R (Table I). The probe using the PCR products wasused to test the accumulation of BPMV RNA2 accumulation in eachtreatment (FIG. 12C). Results showing a single band for each PDS VIGSconstruct, as opposed to multiple bands, demonstrated no significantloss of the PDS insert (FIG. 12B). Further, RT-PCR was performed withforward primer R2-1548F and each reverse primer corresponding to the 3′end of PDS to confirm the PDS gene insertion on BPMV RNA2 (data notshown). Interestingly, all antisense insertions resulted in asignificant reduction of BPMV RNA2. For the sense orientation insertion,only the 5′ ORF caused a similar reduction. The remainder of the senseinsertions had minimal impact on BPMV RNA2 accumulation as compared tothe wild type empty vector (FIGS. 12, B and D). The 3′ ORF and 3′ UTRantisense gave the lowest RNA2 abundance which is about five to sevenfold reduction as compared with the empty vector infection.

A central region of soybean PDS gene was amplified using primer pairGm-PDS-F1130 and Gm-PDS-R1520. This region was used to probe the PDSmRNA accumulation level in plants infected with each PDS construct aswell as with the empty vector control. Based upon band intensityrelative to the empty vector control, PDS gene expression ranged from8.6% to 23.1% of the empty vector control for the antisense constructbut 58.8% to 124.3% for the sense construct. Significantly, there was ageneral correlation between the level of RNA2 accumulation and thetarget gene PDS mRNA level with the antisense orientation yielding thehighest reduction of PDS gene mRNA level. Similar results were obtainedtwice (FIGS. 12, C and E).

Diverse Foliar Symptoms Induced by Expressing Different Genes

Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) was previously shown to express a foreigngene by inserting the foreign gene sequence after foot-and-mouth diseasevirus (FMDV) 2A proteinase peptide fused to the C-terminus of the smallcoat protein (Gopinath et al., 2000). Similarly, we synthesized theFMDV-2A proteinase coding region and placed it immediately after theC-terminus of the small coat protein gene of BPMV. A BamHI restrictionsite was introduced after FMDV-2A to facilitate foreign gene insertionfor expression (pBPMV-M1, FIG. 1B). To test this strategy, the GFP genewas introduced into pBPMV-M1 to generate construct pBPMV-M1-GFP. Afterthree repetitions with controls, we did not achieve infection witheither pBPMV-M1 or pBPMV-M1-GFP when biolistically inoculated witheither pBPMV-R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1) or pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) (data notshown). We ruled out the possibility of faulty inoculation because thebiolistic inoculation method was optimized to routinely achieve almost100% infection. At the same time, the wild type control pBPMV-R2 washighly infectious and it was handled concurrently with pBPMV-M1 andpBPMV-M1-GFP. Further, pBPMV-M1 and pBPMV-M1-GFP were fully re-sequencedand no nucleotide mutations were found as compared with pBPMV-R2.

The previous BPMV gene expression vectors (Zhang and Ghabrial, 2006;Zhang et al., 2009) duplicate the cleavage site between the C-terminusof MP and N-terminus of L-CP. In the new vector, instead of duplicatingthe cleavage site, we introduced a FMDV-2A proteinase peptide betweenthe MP and L-CP cistrons (pBPMV-V3, FIG. 1B) (pBPMV-IA-V3). The vectoris designed to insert foreign genes before the FMDV-2A proteinasepeptide. The synthesized FMDV-2A proteinase peptide has autocleavageactivity at the penultimate amino acid (Gopinath et al., 2000) leavingthe mature L-CP with one extra proline at the N-terminus. This designwas tested by inserting GFP, BAR and TBSV-P19 genes.

Another BPMV viral vector was created to test the possibility ofexpressing a foreign gene and at the same time silence a target gene(pBPMV-V4, FIG. 1B FIG. 5) (pBPMV-IA-V4). Finally, a second FMDV-2Aproteinase peptide was introduced after the first FMDV-2A sequence fordouble gene expression (pBPMV-V5, FIG. 1B FIG. 6) (pBPMV-IA-V5). Toreduce instability of the introduced genetic elements, the sequenceidentity of the second FMDV 2A site was altered by taking advantage ofcodon degeneracy. The Xho I and Sma I restriction sites were used forthe first gene insertion and BamHI was used for the second geneinsertion (pBPMV-V5, FIG. 1B, FIG. 6) (pBPMV-IA-V5). Previously, doublegene silencing was achieved by combining two constructs (Zhang et al.,2009). Similarly, the vector pBPMV-V2 (pBPMV-IA-V2) was designed tocombine more than one construct for simultaneously silencing multiplegenes.

Three genes, including fluorescence marker gene GFP, herbicideresistance gene BAR and RNA silencing suppressor TBSV P19 were expressedindependently by the new BPMV gene expression vector. Three weeks postinoculation, typical mosaic symptoms were seen on pBPMV-GFP2 andpBPMV-BAR inoculated plants. However, severe symptoms including necrosiswere induced by pBPMV-P19 which expresses TBSV P19 RNA silencingsuppressor (FIG. 13). Similarly, the double gene expression constructpBPMV-GFP+BAR induced mosaic symptoms (FIG. 13). The activities of GFPand BAR gene were tested by green fluorescence and herbicide resistance(FIG. 14, FIG. 15). Both constructs pBPMV-BAR and pBPMV-GFP+BAR showedherbicide resistance whereas the mock and empty vector infected soybeanplants were killed by herbicide treatment. This demonstrated that theBAR gene expressed by either the single gene or double gene expressionvector is actively expressed (FIG. 16). Examination of GFP fluorescenceshowed that either the GFP single gene expression construct or thedouble gene expression construct pBPMV-GFP+BAR demonstrate GFP activityin the systemically infected leaves (FIG. 15). By examination of bothBAR gene and GFP gene for the double gene expression constructpBPMV-GFP+BAR, it is shown that the activity of the expressed genes arebiologically active when doubly expressed.

We further tested the potential for simultaneous gene expression andsilencing by making the pBPMV-V4 (pBPMV-IA-V4) vector. ConstructspBPMV-P19-PDS which expresses TBSV P19, a potent RNA silencingsuppressor, induced severe symptoms similar to pBPMV-P19. There was novisible photobleaching phenotype typical of PDS gene silencing (FIG.13). However, pBPMV-BAR-PDS and pBPMV-GFP-PDS both induced visiblephotobleaching on soybean plants as expected if PDS was silenced (FIG.13). The construct pBPMV-GFP-PDS was examined for GFP expression and PDSsilencing more closely. Interestingly, the visible phenotypic expressionof photobleaching of the PDS gene silencing overlaps visiblefluorescence from GFP expression (FIG. 15).

Gene Expression in Roots

To investigate the possibility of foreign gene expression by the BPMVviral gene expression vector in soybean roots, GFP was tested for greenfluorescence in roots. Three weeks post inoculation, soybean roots wererinsed and photographed (FIG. 16). Both the single GFP expressionconstruct pBPMV-GFP2 and the double gene expression constructpBPMV-GFP+BAR gave readily detectable green fluorescence while the emptyvector control produced no fluorescence. It is interesting to note thatroot tips generally show stronger green fluorescence (FIG. 16).

Discussion Construction of CaMV 35S Promoter Driven BPMV Vector

Two distinct subgroups of BPMV RNA1 and RNA2 have been described (Zhanget al., 2007). Infectious clones were developed previously for severalBPMV isolates of both subgroups using either T7 promoter driven in vitroRNA transcription and inoculation or DNA-based direct biolisticinoculation (Zhang and Ghabrial 2006; Zhang et al., 2009). Enhancedinfection efficiency was achieved by placing the BPMV genomic RNA1 andRNA2 under control of the CaMV 35S promoter and Nos terminator (Zhang etal., 2009). The bypassing of RNA in vitro transcription and RNA rubinoculation increased throughput to make feasible the use of highthroughput RNA silencing for soybean functional genomics.

While the biolistic inoculation is highly efficient, inoculation bydirect DNA rubbing may make use of the BPMV vectors more facile as wasreported for Soybean mosaic virus (SMV) (Seo et al., 2009) and Turnipyellow mosaic virus (TYMV, Pflieger et al., 2008). We evaluated directDNA rubbing of soybean seedlings for two constructs, the TBSV P19 RNAsilencing suppressor expression construct pBPMV-P19 and the soybean PDSsilencing construct pBPMV-PDS-R3. In two attempts, infection bypBPMV-P19 was successful but was not by pBPMV-PDS-R3 (data not shown).The Arabidopsis plants used for one-step DNA rubbing by the TYMV PDSsilencing construct were placed in the dark for 24 hours beforeinoculation (Pflieger et al., 2008). It is possible that furtheroptimization of the method may result in higher infection efficiency forBPMV vectors. Because soybean is not amenable for agroinfiltration, wedid not test agroinfiltration inoculation. Nevertheless, the previouswork has shown that the DNA-based BPMV vectors described have theadvantage of long term storage at −20° C. and easy distribution forlarge scale collaborations (Zhang et al., 2009).

The I-Di1 BPMV isolate has subgroup I RNA1 and subgroup II RNA2(Bradshaw, unpublished) for which infectious clones were developed inthis report. The infectious I-Di1 clones induced very mild symptomsindistinguishable from the phenotype of the mock control under theexperimental conditions. While the mild symptoms are amenable for VIGSstudy, a disadvantage is that the infection has to be confirmed byeither ELISA assay or RT-PCR. Gu and Ghabrial (2005) previouslydeveloped infectious clones for two subgroup I BPMV RNA1s, K-Ho1 andK-G7. BPMV K-Ho1 RNA1 induces severe symptoms but K-G7 RNA1 only causesmild symptoms. By recombination between the two RNA1s, the helicasecistron of subgroup I BPMV RNA1 was shown to encode the pathogenicitydeterminant for foliar symptom severity of subgroup I RNA1. They furthersuggested that amino acid position 359 of the helicase may be criticalfor the severe symptoms induced by K-Ho1. By amino acid sequencecomparison of the C-terminus region of the helicase gene, two aminoacids (position 359 and 365) of 1-Di1 RNA1 were mutated to that of thesevere RNA1 of BPMV strain K-Ho1 (FIG. 7A (see FIGS. 8-11 for comparisonof RNA1 amino acid and nucleotide sequences)). Unlike the wild type RNA1clone pBPMV-R1A (pBPMV-IA-R1), the mutant pBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M), uponinoculation with wild type RNA2 clone pBPMV-R2, produced visiblemoderate symptoms on the soybean cultivar Williams (FIG. 7B). pBPMV-R1B(pBPMV-IA-R1M) was subsequently used in this study for gene expressionas well as for VIGS and consistently gave visible symptoms that were notas severe as those caused by the severe strain K-Ho1. This feature makespBPMV-R1B (pBPMV-IA-R1M) convenient for high throughput applications,because assays are not required to confirm infection and the moderatesymptoms are less likely to interfere with phenotypic tests than asevere isolate. In addition, the availability of infectious BPMV RNA1clones that can induce a range of symptom severity phenotypes providesoptions for diverse applications in the future.

The New DNA-Based BPMV VIGS Vector Allows Diverse Design for GeneSilencing in Soybean

Soybean is a major oilseed crop and an important source of food and feedprotein. It is subject to a wide range of pathogens and VIGS is an idealreverse genetics tool for soybean functional genomics aimed atunderstanding host-microbe interactions (Jackson et al., 2006; Stacey etal., 2004). Recently, BPMV VIGS was successfully used for identificationof the soybean rust resistance gene Rpp4 (Meyer et al., 2009). Threeviruses, Apple latent spherical virus (ALSV), Cucumber mosaic virus(CMV) and BPMV have been developed as soybean functional genomics tools(Igarashi et al., 2009; Nagamatsu et al., 2007; Zhang and Ghabrial2006). Fusion protein expression was used for both ALSV and BPMV geneexpression as well as for VIGS studies. The fusion protein strategy usedfor the previous BPMV VIGS vectors (Zhang and Ghabrial 2006; Zhang etal., 2009) requires that foreign sequences be in translation frame withthe RNA2 open reading frame. This design strategy restricts the vector'susefulness for RNA silencing as it cannot target genes such as thosewith very short reading frames and non-coding sequences as well aspromoter regions and untranslated regions. In addition, it cannotdiscern if RNA polarity influences the efficiency of target genesilencing and there is always a short peptide expressed that mayconfound the interpretation of the silencing result. To overcome theseshortcomings, foreign sequences were inserted after the viral RNA2 ORF.The soybean PDS gene was selected for testing this novel strategybecause of the obvious photobleaching phenotype as well as theopportunity to compare with previous results (Igarashi et al., 2009;Nagamatsu et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2009). In our results, senseorientation insertion had minimal effect on PDS silencing. These resultsare consistent with those using ALSV in soybean where the 5′ end PDSsense insertion had little PDS silencing effect (Igarashi et al., 2009).Similar results were also reported in Arabidopsis where sense insertionin TYMV had minimal effect on Arabidopsis GUS and PDS silencing(Pflieger et al., 2008). However, the ALSV report could not test thesilencing effect of RNA polarity due to the fusion protein strategy.Here we found that generally antisense resulted in stronger silencing.Two antisense PDS VIGS constructs, pBPMV-PDS-R3 and pBPMV-PDS-R4,resulted in a 10 fold reduction of PDS mRNA levels. This contrasts withthe 2 to 3 fold reduction we observed when testing other genes using thesense orientation (Zhang et al., 2009). Similar to the ALSV results, wefound that the middle to 3′ end of the PDS gene coding region resultedin stronger silencing, particularly in the antisense orientation.

It has been reported that gene fragments of 23-80 nt can be sufficientfor VIGS induction (Thomas et al., 2001; Burch-Smith et al., 2004;Pflieger et al., 2008). Since the insert size for the BPMV PDS silencingconstruct in this study is about 300 nt, it is theoretically possible toachieve VIGS of multiple soybean genes. This is important becausesoybean has genetic redundancy and genes function in parallel signalingpathways (Blanc and Wolfe 2004; Lawrence and Pikaard 2003; Schlueter etal., 2004; Shoemaker et al., 1996) making simultaneous testing ofdifferent combinations of genes or homologs desirable (Zhang et al.,2009).

Another amenable feature for multiple gene silencing is that there is nolimit on translation requirement for foreign gene insertion with the newBPMV VIGS vector. Further, the interesting finding that the 3′ PDSantisense insertion gave the best silencing phenotype in soybean makesthe new BPMV VIGS vector applicable for constructing a cDNA VIGS librarybecause a version of the new BPMV VIGS vector was developed so thatdirectional insertion can be achieved (data not shown).

Interestingly, we observed that in general greater reduction in PDS mRNAis correlated with reduced BPMV RNA2 accumulation (FIG. 12). This is notsurprising because viral RNA2 carries the inserts for the target gene.We hypothesize that when soybean activates defenses against viralinfections, there is an added effect from the siRNAs for the host PDSgene targeting RNA2 for degradation. However, demonstration that thiscorrelation is a general feature will require studies targeting a widerange of genes involved in different pathways.

The New BPMV Vectors are Useful for Single or Double Gene Expressions

To evaluate the potential of BPMV for double gene expression, we firsttested adding the second foreign gene after the small coat proteincistron since previously it was shown before that a single foreign genecan be expressed between the movement protein and large coat proteincistrons (Zhang and Ghabrial 2006). To our surprise, with repeatedattempts, the constructs pBPMV-M1 and its derivative pBPMV-M1-GFP didnot infect soybean systemically. BPMV belongs to viral genus Comovirusof which CPMV is the type member and a similar strategy for CPMV wassuccessful. However, RNA transcripts for CPMV were first introduced intocowpea protoplasts while the two BPMV constructs were directlyinoculated to soybean plants (Gopinath et al., 2000). The difference ininfection could be due to the different method of inoculation,difference in virus species, or potential trace amounts of backmutations to wild type in the CPMV GFP expression construct when it waspassed from protoplasts to cowpea plants. Therefore, double geneexpression was tested by inserting two foreign genes between themovement protein and large coat protein cistrons. After inserting theFMDV-2A autocleavage peptide, biological functions of several genesincluding GPF, BAR and TBSV-P19 were demonstrated. Subsequently, thesecond non-homologous FMDV-2A autocleavage peptide sequence was insertedfor double gene expression. Both GFP and BAR in the constructpBPMV-GFP+BAR were biologically active. The FMDV-2A autocleavage peptideused in this study belongs to a family termed CHYSEL (cis-actinghydrolase element). Typical CHYSELs have about 20-30 amino acids andshow direct co-translational separation of the nascent chain into twoindependent parts. Other FMDV-2A like CHYSEL peptides are encoded bysome picornaviruses as well as a number of other single- anddouble-stranded RNA viruses (Doronina et al., 2008; Felipe 2004; Halpinet al., 1999). If multiple gene expression is required, other members ofthe CHYSEL peptide family can be selected to disrupt sequence homologyto help maintain foreign gene insert stability. Plant viral vectors thatcan express two (or more) foreign genes may be advantageous for manyapplications. As one potential example, protein-protein interactionssuch as R-gene and avirulence genes may be simultaneously introducedinto plants for studies of signaling pathways involved in biotic stress.For some applications, marker genes such as PDS for silencing and GFPfor expression may be useful. This study suggested that gene expressionand silencing in soybean appear to overlap (FIG. 15). Because both thesilencing and expression phenotype can be patchy as shown in FIG. 15,marker genes may be helpful to determine more precisely where silencingof the target gene is occurring. We termed this marker gene assistedsilencing.

As in shoots, the application of foreign gene expression and silencingis important for understanding of water and nutrient uptake as well asfor microbial- and nematode-root interactions in roots (Constantin etal., 2008; Rosso et al., 2005; Ryu et al., 2004). BPMV was shownpreviously to be effective for root silencing (Zhang et al., 2009). Herewe showed GFP gene expression in soybean roots demonstrating that BPMVis useful for a variety of applications for soybeans.

In summary, this new BPMV-derived vector system has potential to be ahigh throughput functional genomics tool to enable efficient,cost-effective and simplified screening of soybean plants for geneexpression and silencing. Depending on characteristics of the virusesadopted, the same design principles can be applied or adapted to otherplant viral vectors. This will substantially advance our understandingof soybean as well as other important crop plants.

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TABLE I Primers for constructing and sequencinginfectious BPMV VIGS vectors Name Sequence (5′ → 3′) BP-5endFTATTAAAATTTTCATAAGATTTGAAATTTTG R1-235F ATATAGGACTTCGTGTCAGATT R1-688FTGCATATCATTTTCAGCATTTTGT R1-1208F TGTGCTACCATTGCAGTTTCTA R1-2245RAAGTTTGGTCTACAACATAATGA R1-2797R TCCCATTCCACACAAAATTGCT R1-3344RTCAGGATCATACACATGCCA R1-3824R ACTCCCTCTTGACTATCAAC R1-3746FGCTTCATTAATACCATATGTTGA R1-4707R CCACCACAAAGACTGTTTATCA R1-5238RACAAGATAAGCTTCTTGCATTT R1-5708F CAATAAGAAAATTCGGACAGCGCTT R1-5759RGGAAAAGGATCAACTCTAGT R1-3Cla CCATCGATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTATAT TTAAACACR2-454F ACTTGGGCATTGGTGCAAATGT R2-948F ACTTCTTACTGATGGGAAGTTGTA R2-1548FCAAGAGAAAGATTTATTGGAGGGA R2-1786F AAGCTCAAATGGAAACAAATCT R2-2133FTGGAATCCTGCTTGTACAAAAGCA R2-2688R TGTGAGAAACTCCTCTTGTGA R2-2746FTGGCTGATGGGTGCCCATATT R2-3303F ATGGTTTCGAAATGTGGAGTTCTGA R2-3ClaCCATCGATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTAAAA TAACACAC R1-Modi-FAAAAATGAAAGTGGTCATTTTAATAAT R1-Modi-R ATTATTAAAATGACCACTTTCATTTTT35S-Seq ACG CAC AAT CCC ACT ATC Nos-Rev AGA CCG GCA ACA GGA TTC ACaMV-35FP (5-phos)CCGCCCTCCAAAAATATCAAAGA Nos-RP(5-phos)GAATTCCCGATCTAGTAACATAGA pCB0380-6455F GTTTCAAACCCGGCAGCTpCB0380-506R CTGAACGTCAGAAGCCGACT

TABLE II Primers used for vector modification and foreign gene cloningPrimer name  Primer sequence (5′ → 3′) R2-For1  TGCATGAGGATCCTGATCTGGAATTTGTGT R2-Rev1 CCAGATCAGGATCCTCATGCAGAGGATTCCGCAR2-For2 TCTGGATCCGCGTCGACTCCAGGCCTCGA R2-Rev2GGAAGATCTCTCGAGGCCTGGAGTCGAC R2-For3TTGAGTCCAACCCTGGGCCCGGATCCTGATCTGGAATTTGTGTTT R2-Rev3CCAGGGTTGGACTCAACGTCACCTGCTAACTTAAGTAGGTCAAAGT R2-For4TCTGCAGCGCCTGCAAAACAGCTCTTAAACTTTGACCTACTTAAG R2-Rev4TGCAGGCGCTGCAGAGGATTCCGCATTTT R2-For5CCCGTCGACCCCGGGGCCCCAGCTAAGCAATTGCTGAATTTCGATCTCTTGAAACTGGCTGGAGATGTAGAATCAAATCCAGGCCCGATGGA AACAAATTTGTTTAAATTGTR2-Rev5 ACAATGAGGTTCAGGCTCAGATGGAGACCAACCTCTTCAAGCTCAGCTTGGACGACGTAGAGACACCAAAGGGAAGCCTCGAGCCCGTCGA CCCCGGG GFP-Bam-ForCCTTGGATCCATGAGTAAAGGAGAAGAACTTTTCA GFP-Bam-RevTCCGGATCCTTATTTGTATAGTTCATCCATGCCA GFP-XhoCCGCTCGAGATGAGTAAAGGAGAAGAACTTT GFP-Sma TCCCCCGGGTTTGTATAGTTCATCCATGCCATBSV-P19-Xho CCTCGAGATGGAACGAGCTATACAAGG TBSV-P19-SmaTCCCCCGGGCTCGCTTTCTTTTTCGAAGGT BAR-Xho CCGCTCGAGAGCCCAGAACGACGCC BAR-SmaTCCCCCGGGGATCTCGGTGACGGGCA GFP-modi-1FACGCGTCGACGGATCCATGAGTAAAGGAGAAGAACTTT GFP-modi-1RAGGCGCGGATCCTTTGTATAGTTCATCCATGCCA GFP-modi-2FCTATACAAAGGATCCGCGCCTGCAAAACAGCTCT GFP-modi-2RCCGCTCGAGGGGCCCAGGGTTGGACTCAACGT Gm-PDS-pF1CGCGGATCCCGTGGTGCTTTCACCACTGCT Gm-PDS-pR1CGCGGATCCCACTTTGAAAGTAGATTTGGGA Gm-PDS-pF2 CGCGGATCCGCCGCTTGTGGCTATATATGm-PDS-pR2 CGCGGATCCTCCTGCACCGGCAATAACGA Gm-PDS-pF3CGCGGATCCGCAAGGAATATTATAGCCCAAA Gm-PDS-pR3CGCGGATCCCAGAAAGAACAGCGCCTTCCA Gm-PDS-pF4CGCGGATCCCAAGAATTGAAAGAGTCATGGT Gm-PDS-pR4CGCGGATCCCCAATACAAACATTGATCCAGA Gm-PDS-pF1130CGCGGATCCTGGATGGCAATCCACCCGA Gm-PDS-pR1520CGCGGATCCTTTGGGCTATAATATTCCTTGC BPMV sequences.txt @551656AS34@ ISERF267|Demo User 212 25|pBPMV-GFP + BAR (pBPMV-V5) 27|1 222|3 33|9311236|472234174 26|8569 28|0 219|0 220|1 221|1 29|0 30|0 217|0 31|0 32|1255 224|Demo User 50 256 224|Demo User 50 1001|0 45 51|4352|Nos Terminator 53|0 55|9027 56|9302 57|0 281|1 282|1 283|1 284|1 5045 51|21 52|FMDV-2A 1st 53|0 55|7062 56|7133 57|0 281|1 282|1 283|1284|1 50 45 51|21 52|GFP (between BamHI sites) 53|0 55|5712 56|6425 57|0281|1 282|1 283|1 284|1 50 45 51|21 52|FMDV-2A 2nd 53|10 55|6432 56|650357|0 281|1 282|1 283|1 284|1 50 45 51|21 52|BAR (between XhoI and SmaI)53|0 55|6510 56|7055 57|0 281|1 282|1 283|1 284|1 50 45 51|2152|CaMV 35S promoter 53|0 55|3147 56|3838 57|0 281|1 282|1 283|1 284|150 205 37|0 38|0 39|0 40|0 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1. A Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) helper sequence for BPMV vectorinoculation in a recipient plant, comprising a BPMV RNA1 sequence thathas been modified so that said inoculation produces moderate rather thanmild symptoms in a recipient plant.
 2. The helper sequence of claim 1wherein said sequence includes modifications of the amino acids atposition 359 and 365 of BPMV RNA1 helicase gene.
 3. The helper sequenceof claim 1 wherein said modifications include a serine at position 359and a tyrosine at position 365 of a wild type RNA1 virus.
 4. The helpersequence of claim 1 wherein said sequence comprises a modification to aserine at position 359 and a tyrosine at position 365 and furthercomprises: (a) a polynucleotide having at least 90% sequence identity,as determined by the BLAST 2.0 algorithm under default parameters, to apolynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:2 or 8 (b) apolynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1 or 7 (c) a polynucleotide amplified from anucleic acid library using primers which selectively hybridize, understringent hybridization conditions, to a sequence within apolynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1 or 7 (d) a polynucleotide whichselectively hybridizes, under stringent hybridization conditions with awash in 2×SSC at 50 C, to a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1 or 7 (e) apolynucleotide which is a full length complement of a polynucleotide of(a), (b), (c), or (d).
 5. A Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) vector,comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding an RNA2 polyprotein openreading frame (ORF), wherein said RNA2 polyprotein ORF comprises a firstand second protease cleavage site, wherein the nucleic acid sequencesencoding said first and second protease cleavage sites differsufficiently to reduce homologous recombination between said proteasecleavage site encoding nucleic acid sequences and wherein target genesequence insertion sites are after the RNA2 translation stop codon. 6.The vector of claim 5, wherein said first protease cleavage site islocated between the movement protein (MP) and large coat protein (L-CP)encoded by said RNA2 polyprotein.
 7. The vector of claim 5, said vectorcomprising a V1, V2, V4, or V5 BPMV vector as depicted in FIG. 1B. 8.The vector of claim 7 comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ IDNO:4, SEQ NO:5 or SEQ ID NO:6.
 9. The vector of claim 5, wherein saidvector contains restriction sites for insertion of a heterologoussequence after the RNA2 polyprotein translation stop codon or the stopcodons of BPMV RNA2 encoded open reading frame.
 10. A method forexpressing a heterologous polypeptide in a soybean plant, comprisinginoculating a soybean plant with modified Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV)RNA1 and a recombinant RNA2, wherein said modified BPMV RNA1 comprisesmodifications so that said inoculation produced moderate symptoms in arecipient plant.
 11. The method of claim 10 wherein said modified BPMVRNA1 sequence includes modifications of sequence encoding the aminoacids at position 359 and 365 of BPMV RNA1 helicase gene.
 12. The methodof claim 11 wherein said modifications include a serine at position 359and a tyrosine at position 365 of a wild type RNA1 sequence.
 13. Themethod of claim 12 wherein said sequence comprises a modification to aserine at position 359 and a tyrosine at position 365 and furthercomprises: (a) a polynucleotide having at least 90% sequence identity,as determined by the BLAST 2.0 algorithm under default parameters, to apolynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:2; (b) apolynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1; (c) a polynucleotide amplified from anucleic acid library using primers which selectively hybridize, understringent hybridization conditions, to a sequence within apolynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1; (d) a polynucleotide which selectivelyhybridizes, under stringent hybridization conditions with a wash in2×SSC at 50 C, to a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1; (e) a polynucleotidewhich is a full length complement of a polynucleotide of (a), (b), (c),or (d).
 14. A method for expressing a heterologous polypeptide in asoybean plant, comprising inoculating a soybean plant with Bean podmottle virus (BPMV) RNA1 and recombinant RNA2, wherein said recombinantBPMV RNA2 comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding an RNA2 polyproteinopen reading frame (ORF), wherein said RNA2 polyprotein ORF comprises afirst and second protease cleavage site, wherein the nucleic acidsequences encoding said first and second protease cleavage sites differsufficiently to reduce homologous recombination between said proteasecleavage site encoding nucleic acid sequences and wherein a nucleic acidsequence encoding a heterologous polypeptide is inserted after the RNAstop codon of said RNA polyprotein ORF.
 15. The method of claim 14,wherein said first protease cleavage site is located between themovement protein (MP) and large coat protein (L-CP) encoded by said RNA2polyprotein.
 16. The method of claim 14, said vector comprising a V1,V2, V4, or V5 BPMV vector as depicted in FIGS. 3-6.
 17. The method ofclaim 16 comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ IDNO:5 or SEQ ID NO:6.
 18. A method for virus induced gene silencing in alegumous plant, comprising inoculating a plant with modified Bean podmottle virus (BPMV) RNA1 and a recombinant RNA2, wherein said modifiedBPMV RNA1 comprises modifications so that said inoculation producedmoderate symptoms in a recipient plant.
 19. The method of claim 18wherein said modified BPMV RNA1 of BPMV RNA1 helicase gene sequenceincludes modifications of sequence encoding the amino acids at position359 and 365 of BPMV RNA1 helicase gene.
 20. The method of claim 19wherein said modifications include a serine at position 359 and atyrosine at position 365 of a wild type RNA1 sequence of BPMV RNA1helicase gene.
 21. The method of claim 20 wherein said sequencecomprises a modification to a serine at position 359 and a tyrosine atposition 365 and further comprises: (a) a polynucleotide having at least90% sequence identity, as determined by the BLAST 2.0 algorithm underdefault parameters, to a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of SEQ IDNO:2; (b) a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1; (c) a polynucleotideamplified from a nucleic acid library using primers which selectivelyhybridize, under stringent hybridization conditions, to a sequencewithin a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1; (d) a polynucleotide whichselectively hybridizes, under stringent hybridization conditions with awash in 2×SSC at 50 C, to a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1; (e) apolynucleotide which is a full length complement of a polynucleotide of(a), (b), (c), or (d).
 22. A method for marker assisted gene silencingin a legumous plant, comprising inoculating said plant with Bean podmottle virus (BPMV) RNA1 and recombinant RNA2, wherein said recombinantBPMV RNA2 comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding an RNA2 polyproteinopen reading frame (ORF), wherein said RNA2 polyprotein ORF comprises afirst and second protease cleavage site, wherein the nucleic acidsequences encoding said first and second protease cleavage sites differsufficiently to reduce homologous recombination between said proteasecleavage site encoding nucleic acid sequences and wherein a nucleic acidsequence encoding a heterologous polypeptide is inserted after the RNAstop codon of said RNA polyprotein ORF.
 23. The vector of claim 22,wherein said first protease cleavage site is located between themovement protein (MP) and large coat protein (L-CP) encoded by said RNA2polyprotein.
 24. The vector of claim 22, said vector comprising a V1,V2, V4, or V5 BPMV vector as depicted in FIG. 1B.
 25. The vector ofclaim 24 comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ IDNO:5 or SEQ ID NO:6.